5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confine \Con"fine\ (? or ?); 277), v. i.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to
touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.]
Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton.
Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confine \Con"fine\, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
Events that came to pass within the confines of
Judea. --Locke.
And now in little space The confines met of empyrean
heaven, And of this world. --Milton.
On the confines of the city and the Temple.
--Macaulay.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his
confine. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confine \Con*fine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confined}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Confining}.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL.
confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See
{Final}, {Finish}.]
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound;
to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined!
let order die! --Shak.
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and
the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden.
{To be confined}, to be in childbed.
Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose;
circumscribe; restrict.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
confine
v 1: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a
day" [syn: {limit}, {circumscribe}]
2: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: {restrict}, {restrain}, {trammel}, {limit},
{bound}, {throttle}]
3: prevent from leaving or from being removed
4: close in or confine [syn: {enclose}, {hold in}]
5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: {detain}]
[ant: {free}]
6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement;
"This holds the local until the express passengers change
trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the
stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a
detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists
for ransom" [syn: {restrain}, {hold}]
From eng-fra [engfra]:
confine
[kənfain]
limiter