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▪ I. prison, n.|ˈprɪz(ə)n|
Forms: 2–5 prisun (dat. 2–4 -une), 4–5 -une; 3– prison (dat. 3–4 -one), 4–6 prisone; 3–6 -oun (5 -oune), 4–5 -own; 4–6 pryson, -one, -oun, -own (5 -yn); 6 prissoun. β. 4–5 presun (4 pressone), 4–7 preson(e, -oun(e, 5 -own, 6 preassoun.
[Early ME. prisun, -on, a. OF. prisun (11th c. in Littré), prison, the action of taking, imprisonment, captivity, a prison; a prisoner; altered (prob. by assimilation to the pa. pple. pris taken) from earlier OF. preson:—L. prensiōn-em, contr. from prehensiōn-em a seizing, apprehending, n. of action f. prehendĕre, prendĕre to seize. So Pr. preiso-s, It. prigione, Sp. prision, Pg. prisão. Sense 2, which existed also in OF., It., Sp., and med.L., appears to have arisen from a person taken (in war) and held as a captive, being considered as a capture, prise, or prize.]
1. orig. The condition of being kept in captivity or confinement; forcible deprivation of personal liberty; imprisonment; hence, a place in which such confinement is ensured; spec. such a place properly arranged and equipped for the reception of persons who by legal process are committed to it for safe custody while awaiting trial or for punishment; a jail.
a. without article. Here the primary sense is that of the condition, though the notion of a definite place of confinement is now more or less present. Often with certain verbs, as to break prison (break v. 19); to cast (cast v. 32), † do, put, set in prison; to keep, lay, lie in prison.
a1123O.E. Chron. an. 1112 Rotbert de Bælesme he let niman and on prisune don. 1154Ibid. an. 1137 Þa namen hi þa men..& diden heom in prisun. c1175Lamb. Hom. 13 Ȝe beoð iseald eower feonde to prisune. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2070 Ðre daies ben ȝet for to cumen, Ðu salt ben ut of prisun numen. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 875 Þe quene hor aunte in bataile hii nome & in stronge prison broȝte [v.rr. dude, putte]. a1300Cursor M. 9556 Til his aun fa felun Was he be-taght for to prisun [v.rr. presoun, preson, prisoun]. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) x. 40 A place whare oure Lord was done in prisoun. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 183 Songe and prison have noon accordaunce, Trowest thou I wolle syng in prisoun? 1448Paston Lett. I. 74 Sum be in pryson in the jayll at Coventre. a1500in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 264 Yf ony thing in this lettre be vntrue, I am contente that your Grace giue vnto me therfore perpetuell prison. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxlv[i]. 7 The Lorde lowseth men out of preson. 1559Mirr. Mag., Dk. of Suffolk xx, And caused me in prison to be thralled. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 665 The King caused him to be clapt in prison, but he brake prison. 1621Execution at Prague in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 411 Remain in perpetual prison. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. i. 461 While I Must languish in despair, in prison die. 1897Daily News 30 Aug. 5/1 Prison for lads should be the last, and not the first, resort.
b. with a, the, or a possessive, or in plural, referring more distinctly to a material structure.
State prison: (a) a prison for the confinement of political offenders; (b) U.S. a prison under the control of the authorities of a State.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 33 Þe mon þe leie xii. moneð in ane prisune. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Seint iohan baptiste was bihaueded in herodes prisone. a1300Cursor M. 13068 Iohn..þou sal in mi presun lii. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 79, I com wyth þose tyþynges, þay tame bylyue, Pynez me in a prysoun, put me in stokkes. 1382Wyclif Acts v. 23 We founden the prisoun schit with al diligence, and the keperis stondinge at the ȝatis. c1400Destr. Troy 3518 The kyng þen comaund to..fetur hir fast in a fre prisoune,—A stithe house of stone. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxxii. 120 Thus eschaped dedalus oute of the pryson of Mynos kynge of Crete. 1530Palsgr. 258/2 Prison a dongyon, chartre. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 383 The uthir [was] in vyle preassoun cassin. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa 33 There are no prisons in al his empire: for..iustice is executed out of hand. 1637Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 91 The order to send Doctor Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prin to their severall remote prisons. 1649Lovelace To Althea from Prison iv, Stone Walls doe not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage. 1777Howard (title) The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an account of some foreign Prisons. 1795Jemima II. 77 Gave the air of a state prison to the apartment. 1823Act 4 Geo. IV, c. 64 §76 Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the..Prison of Bridewell, nor to the Fleet Prison, or to the Prison of the Marshalsea. 1885Major Griffiths in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 747/2 The atrocities perpetrated [c 1730] by the keepers of the chief debtors' prisons in London. Ibid. 755/2 Where the sentence passes beyond two years..the prisoner becomes a convict, and undergoes his penalty in one or more of the convict prisons. 189.Sir G. Kekewich in Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. (1900), 10/1 Every time I hear of a new school being opened, I say to myself ‘There goes another prison’.
c. transf. and fig. (from a and b.)
a1225Ancr. R. 54 Eue..leop..vrom þes eorðe to helle, þer heo lei ine prisune uour þusend ȝer & moare. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 128 Resoun shal..casten hym in arrerage, And putten hym after in a prisone in purgatorie to brenne. 1382Wyclif 1 Pet. iii. 19 To hem that weren closid to gydere in prisoun he comynge in spirit prechide [1611 He went and preached vnto the spirits in prison]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 377 Aluredus..ladde uncerteyn and unesy lyf in þe wode contrayes of Somersete..Aluredus com out of prison. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxii. (Percy Soc.) 157 This False Reporte hath broken pryson, With his subtyl crafte and evyl treason. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 75 b, The Cite is to me a pryson, and the wyldernes a paradyse. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 246–9. 1606 Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows ii. §5. 132, I may not breake prison, till I bee loosed by death. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 113 The Island was certainly a Prison to me. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. xxxiii. 473 Our winter prison was before us. 1880E. H. Plumptre in Dict. Chr. Biog. II. 196/1 So Cyril of Jerusalem..speaks of Christ as descending to Hades... The souls that had been long in prison were set free.
d. In Roulette and related board-games: a position on the board where bets are held in abeyance until the next round of play; spec. in phr. to put (a stake) in prison.
1867Bohn's Hand-Bk. Games 346 The punters may..have their stake moved into the middle semicircles of the colour they then choose, called ‘la première prison’, the first prison, to be determined by the next event, whether they lose all or are set at liberty. 1940Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 32 When Zero turns up..stakes on the even chances aren't scooped up—they are what is called put in prison. 1977P. Arnold Encyl. Gambling 247/1 Prison, a convention whereby a stake on the even-money chances at roulette is left on the table, or ‘put in prison’ when zero appears, to be either retained by the bettor or lost according to the next spin.
e. prison-without-bars (colloq.): an open prison (open a. 2 c).
1948Manch. Even. News 10 Nov., The former governor of Britain's ‘prison-without-bars’ at Loudham Grange. 1952‘J. Henry’ Who lie in Gaol v. 69, I heard a great deal of the many advantages I would enjoy at the prison-without-bars at York; in fact it was looked upon as a form of heaven by most of the prisoners [at Holloway]. 1959‘H. Carmichael’ Stranglehold vi. 58 A solicitor who was doing time at the prison-without-bars.
†2. A person held in prison; a prisoner. Obs.
[1195Charter Rich. I in Rymer Fœdera I. 92/2 Hiis omnibus per actis Comes Leicestriæ, et omnes Prisones, et hostagii Prisonum..liberabuntur.] a1225Ancr. R. 32 Þe pine þet prisuns þolieð; þet heo liggeð mid iren heuie iveotered. [1292Britton i. xii. §2 Et si le prisoun qi si avera eschapé.] a1300Cursor M. 4436 (Cott.) All þe prisuns [v.rr. presunes, prisouns] þat þar was, Þat oþer in prisun war or band. 13..Evang. Nicod. 521 in Herrig Archiv LIII. 401 A pryson þai had hight Barabas. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 58 Pitousliche and pale as a prisoun þat deyeth. 1438Bk. Alexander Grt. (Bann.) 4 Thay tuik na tent to tak presounis. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 530 They..toke with them all seyntwary men, & the prysons of Newgate, Ludgate, & of bothe Counters.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. attributive: (a) of or pertaining to a prison or prisons, as prison-accommodation, prison-boat, prison-buildings, prison-cell, prison chaplain, prison-clock, prison Commission (commission 6), prison-discipline, prison-dream, prison-dress, prison-garment, prison-ground, prison guard, prison-hour, prison-industry, prison-labour, prison-library, prison officer, prison-official, prison pallor, prison-piety, prison reform, prison-rime, prison-roof, prison-sister, prison-thrall, prison-torture, prison-wall (also fig.), prison warder, prison yard; (b) confined in a prison, as prison-author, prison-slave, prison woman; (c) serving as a prison or place of confinement, as prison camp, prison chamber, prison farm, prison fort, prison fortress, prison hold, prison hospital, prison island, prison isle, prison pit, prison place, prison room, prison ship, prison tower.
b. objective and object. gen., as prison-cleaner, prison-keeper, prison-making, prison visitor; prison-visiting n.; prison-bursting, prison-escaping, prison fancying adjs.c. instrumental, locative, etc., as prison-born, prison-bound, prison-caused, prison-flavoured, prison-grey, prison-made, prison-taught; also prison-free, prison-like adjs.d. Special comb.: prison-bird, one who has been often or long in prison for felonies: cf. jail-bird; prison-breach, -breaking, a breaking out of a lawfully confined person from prison: cf. to break prison: see 1 a and break v. 19; so prison-breaker; prison-crop, hair cut very short, ‘county-crop’: cf. crop n. 13; so prison-cropped adj.; prison editor, an editor (of a newspaper) who takes the legal responsibility for what appears in the paper, and serves the terms of imprisonment that conviction may entail; prison-fever = jail-fever; prison haircut = prison-crop; prison-van, a close carriage for the conveyance of prisoners. Also prison-bar, -door, etc.
1907Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 16/2 Mrs. Price..had many distinguished predecessors as *prison-authors. It was in Newgate that Defoe wrote his ‘Jure Divino’ [etc.].
1632Massinger City Madam i. i, I sent the *prison-bird this morning for them. 1898Besant Orange Girl Prol., ‘I venture to ask who you are.’ ‘A prison bird, madam. Nothing more.’
c1820S. Rogers Italy, St. Mark's Place 114 Most nights arrived The *prison-boat.
1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 173, I lack..many things which thou, being *prison-born, neither art nor can be sensible of.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856) 240 Us, poor *prison-bound vagrants.
1903Ld. W. N[eville] Penal Servitude vi. 63 A most irregular proceeding,..calculated to lead to conspiracy, *prison-breach.
1725(title) The *Prison-Breaker; or, the Adventures of John Sheppard.
a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 455 *Prison-bursting Death! Welcome be thy blow!
1925Scribner's Mag. Oct. 386/1 The scene is a Turkish *prison-camp during the recent war. 1978Lancashire Life Nov. 150/1 (Advt.), Mr. P―, a Pole who arrived in England in 1947 after..escaping from a German prison camp.
1902Major Griffiths in Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 7/1 The *prison cell, which in effect typifies the modern system.
1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, The passage..probably led to the *prison-chamber which Olivia had described.
a1902S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lxv. 293 He might experimentalise advantageously upon the viler soul of the *prison chaplain. 1910Encyl. Brit. V. 851/2 Prison chaplains are appointed by the home secretary. 1972N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel iii. 78 The prison chaplain gave a short, civilized sermon.
1898O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 18 The *prison-clock Smote on the shivering air.
1898Westm. Gaz. 18 May 9/2 Down till after 1801 ‘a *prison crop’ was unknown in the services—officers and men wore their hair in queue.
1894A. Robertson Nuggets 13 You'll find he's *prison cropped.
1818T. F. Buxton Inquiry Prison Discipline 137 Having..described two..opposite modes of *prison discipline, I would suggest.., that a comparison of these is the most certain criterion of their respective merits. 1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 590 Has not a notion grown up within a few years, (we believe a very false one), that the increased mildness of prison-discipline has made our gaols..places where the prisoner is actually too comfortable, and too well off? 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. §2. 56 Without..pushing our calculations quite to this prison-discipline extreme. 1885Major Griffiths in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 749/1 Stimulated..by the success achieved by Mrs. Fry, the Prison Discipline Society continued its useful labours.
1869W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 26 The *prison-dress that you have on.
1896Daily News 14 Nov. 6/7 A writer in the ‘Pretoria Press’ says, in connection with the Coercion Act recently passed: ‘Should the Press Law come into force, it will be necessary for some of our papers to become possessed of a ‘*Prison Editor’. 1905Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/6 In France..most of the important political articles are signed, and the name of an editor is generally printed on the main page. But it is sometimes merely that of the ‘prison editor’.
1961Atlanta Constitution 4 Nov. 1 The jury praised the administration and operation of the Atlanta Police Department, the Fulton Tax Commissioner's Office, the Bellwood and Alpharetta *prison farms, [etc.]. 1968Listener 15 Feb. 210/1 As remarkable..is the improvement he has brought about in his year in charge of the smaller prison farm, Tucker. 1975C. Weston Susannah Screaming (1976) iii. 39 Delgado made a break from the prison farm where he had been sent after a period of good behavior in a federal cellblock.
1853Card. Wiseman Ess. III. 20 An African..*prison-fort, where galley-slaves are detained.
18..Lang Johnny Moir xlix. in Child Ballads viii. (1892) 400/1 They've taen the lady by the hand And set her *prison-free.
1560Bible (Genev.) Jer. lii. 33 Euil-merodach..broght him out of prison,..And changed his *prison garments [Coverd. clothes of his preson].
1956‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits & Scots Unbound 90 A flash of sun in a country all *prison-grey.
14..Sir Beues 1311 (MS.M) Whan he was down in *preson ground Beues handis they on-bound.
1961W. T. Ballard Night Riders i. 15 Two wore the uniform of *prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts. 1970G. Jackson Let. 10 June in Soledad Brother (1971) 40, I am being tried in court right now..for the alleged slaying of a prison guard. 1977Time 12 Dec. 47/3 With only good time remaining as a route to early release, the potential for abuse by prison guards would be heightened as well.
1974Times 17 Aug. 7/1 A snotty little nervous kid with a *prison haircut.
1837Chalmers Lect. Rom. I. iv. 68 They chain it, as it were, in the *prison-hold of their own corruptions. 1933J. Buchan Prince of Captivity ii. i. 178 You would spend some weeks in a *prison hospital till they patched you up. 1943F. Thompson Candleford Green ix. 142 Such a journey..and a prison hospital..at the end of it. 1978P. G. Winslow Coppergold 48 He fell a victim to influenza..was taken to the prison hospital.
1727–46Thomson Summer 1507 Raleigh..with his *prison-hours enrich'd the world.
1855Dickens Dorrit (1857) i. i. 4 The *prison-keeper appeared carrying..a basket. 1881W. W. Newton Serm. Boys & Girls 2 Order the prison-keepers to let me go.
1967H. Pinter Night School in Tea Party & Other Plays 101, I was running the *prison library. 1979K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol vi. 31 He gets a nice job in the prison library but horrid things happen to him in the showers.
1839E. A. Poe in Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 206 This *prison-like rampart formed the limits of our domain. 1847Smeaton Builder's Man. 198 Far superior to the bald and prison⁓like structures which haunt the metropolis. 1916D. H. Lawrence Amores 77 The town Glimmers with subtle ghosts Going up and down In a common, prison-like dress. 1944A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xxxv. 244 That sepulchral, prison-like building. 1970P. Dickinson Seals ii. 53 Many criminals..are really only happy..when..their day is shaped by a prison-like discipline.
1895Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 3/3 Legislation..effectual in keeping out of this country *prison-made goods. 1905Daily Chron. 20 May 3/1 The prison-made workman is liable to be spotted in an outside factory.
1907B. Thomson Story of Dartmoor Prison xxi. 260 The better class of men came to realize that *prison officers were their friends rather than their enemies. 1961Observer 9 Apr. 22/8 He refers to prison officers as prison warders, a title abandoned something like thirty years ago. 1978P. Lovesey Waxwork 79 It is quite impossible to conduct a conversation through an iron grille with two prison officers at my client's shoulder.
1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down ii. xx. 446 He sat there with his *prison pallor upon him. 1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 141/1 He squints into the unaccustomed sunlight..and..suffers from a case of prison pallor.
1891Daily News 22 Jan. 7/2 [An] officer of the Mendicity Society produced a *prison photograph of prisoner.
1677(title) *Prison-Pietie: or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads..By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate.
1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. i. 21 To see the children of our father in the dungeon, and *prison-pit.
1890W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. ix. 74 Once the work of *Prison Reform is taken in hand by men..who are in full sympathy with the class for whose benefit they labour. 1972A. Roudybush Sybaritic Death (1974) vii. 67 His original project had been to devote his activities to the cause of prison reform.
1810Scott Lady of L. vi. xii, 'Twas a *prison-room Of stern security and gloom.
1795Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 47, I am not Captain of the Ça Ira. At present she is a *Prison-ship.
1553Brende Q. Curtius v. 83 Shall our chyldren, shall our brethren acknowledge vs, beyng *prison slaues?
1866J. H. Newman Gerontius i. 12 Rescue..the two Apostles from their *prison-thrall.
1835L. E. Landon Misc. Poems 23 When she left her *prison-tower..It was to seek the sea-beat strand.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Prison-van, a police carriage for conveying prisoners to and from a court of justice. 1880G. R. Sims Three Brass Balls xvii, The time when ‘Black Maria’, the prison van, stands waiting at the door.
1838H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel I. 224, I trust that the practice of *prison-visiting will gain ground. 1973L. Cooper Tea on Sunday i. 21 Barry Slater, the unfortunate legacy of Alberta's spell of prison visiting.
1837H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. iii. iv. 285 Every *prison visitor has been conscious, on first conversing privately with a criminal, of a feeling of surprise at finding him so human. 1975N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? xv. 88 Vera made a good prison visitor.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. v. 21 The Flinty ribbes Of this hard world, my ragged *prison walles. 1706Watts Horæ Lyr. i. Happy Frailty xii, Devotion breaks the prison-walls, And speeds my last remove. 1855Trollope Warden xvi. 248 No convict, slipping down from a prison wall, ever feared to see the gaoler more entirely than Mr. Harding did to see his son-in-law. 1898O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 16 The weeping prison-wall. 1951M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael i. vii. 62 Rickie peeped for a moment over the prison walls of his own depression.
a1902S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lxiv. 286 The *prison warder..sent for the doctor. 1914Prison Officers Mag. Nov. 450/2 For the past four years the majority of the Irish Prison Warders have favoured us with their confidence and support. 1928[see wardering vbl. n.]. 1961[see prison officer above]. 1978M. Butterworth X marks Spot 179 With two escorting prison warders as witnesses.
1655(title) The Oppressed Close Prisoner In Windsor-Castle, his Defiance to The Father of Lyes. By Chr. Feake, in his *Prison-Watch-tower.
1898Daily News 19 Nov. 6/3 It took half a dozen of these poor nerveless *prison women to do what one ordinary energetic laundry woman would accomplish.
1642in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1877) II. 70 The Constables are appointed..to take care for the building a salt peter howse in the *prison yarde. 1776Jrnls. Continental Congress U.S. (1906) IV. 121 Resolved, That the said J. Connolly be allowed..to walk in the prison yard or hall. 1851J. J. Lancaster in Rep. Sel. Comm. Passengers' Act 142 in Parl. Papers XIX. 1 Those in Millbank [sc. a London military hospital] are drawn up in the prison-yard or wards. 1856Dickens Dorrit (1857) ii. vi. 383 They prowled about..in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner.
1963N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) v. 126 She..walked aimlessly..as if the garden were a prison yard.
Add:[3.] [d.] prison sentence, a judicial sentence committing an offender to prison; the period of time served.
[1904Northwestern Reporter C. 5/1 The court..may, in its discretion, impose a State's Prison sentence upon this class.] 1912Ibid. CXXXV. 243/2 Defendant was persistent in saving his wife from a prison sentence. 1931L. Le Mesurier Boys in Trouble xv. 162 If the Magistrate..decides..to..give a short prison sentence..what will happen during the actual period of the sentence? 1978F. Maclean Take Nine Spies iv. 148 Kawai was simply given a short prison sentence.
▪ II. prison, v.|ˈprɪz(ə)n|
Forms: see the n.
[f. prison n.]
trans. To put in prison, make a prisoner of; to incarcerate; to keep in a prison or other place of confinement; to detain in custody. Now poet. or rhet., and north. dial. (the usual word for the literal sense being imprison).
[1292Britton i. xii. §6 Mes les prisounez pur felounie en nule manere voloms suffrer de nul homme enpleder.] a1300Cursor M. 4484 (Gött.) First men stal me [Joseph] fra mi thede And presuned [v.rr. prisund, prisoned] me, sacles of dede. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 101 Sir William Crispyn with þe duke was led, Togider prisoned. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 79 So trewe prestis schullen be cursed & prisoned. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 181 His felawes were..i-prisoned to her lyves ende. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 39 Cordeilla the doȝter of kynge Leir,..whom Morganus and Cunedagius prisonede at the laste. 1526Tindale Acts xxii. 19, I presoned and bett in euery sinagoge them that beleued on the. 1542Brinklow Compl. xii. 29 Many tymes thei preson men for their fryndes pleasure. 1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 1104 Even as a Lion pris'ned in his grate,..Roars hideously. 1813Byron Corsair ii. xi, A chief on land—an outlaw on the deep—Destroying—saving—prison'd—and asleep! [1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. instanced from Shetland Is. to Mid Yorksh.]
b. transf. and fig. To restrain from liberty of movement; to confine; = imprison 1 b and 2.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) iv. xxxviii. (1859) 67 Here myght thou see the meschyef of vntrewe counceylle, that made this gentil Lyberalite prisond. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 11 Whyle our soulles ar prysoned in these dedly bodyes. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 642 His true respect will prison false desire. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 358 Whose spirits are now fast prisoned in Hell. 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 524 From winds, and waves, and central night, Tho' prison'd there, my dust too I reclaim. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxvii, I arrested his wandering hand, and prisoned it in both mine. 1878Browning Poets Croisic xxv, Why prison his career while Christendom Lay open to reward acknowledged worth?
Hence ˈprisoned ppl. a., confined in or as in a prison; imprisoned.
a1327in Pol. Poems (Camden) 202 The lafful man ssal be i-bund,..And i-holdin fast prisund. c1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS.B.) 378, I pray þe, lord..To hom þat are..seke or prisonde, or o-pon þo see..til alle hom, þou sende socoure. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 462 Wth prisoned winds the wringling Colick pains them. 1790Cowper Stanzas 2 Where the prison'd lark is hung. 1811Scott Don Roderick xxxii, The groans of prisoned victims mar the lays. a1881Rossetti House of Life iii, Thine eyes Draw up my prisoned spirit to thy Soul. |