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fenced, ppl. a.|fɛnst|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In various senses of the vb.a. Furnished with defences, fortified. Now only in Biblical phraseology. b. Provided with a hedge or rail, railed off, enclosed. lit. and fig. Also fenced in. c. Sc. Law. Poinded; see fence v. 8 c.
c1440Promp. Parv. 155/1 Fencyd, or defencyd, defensus, munitus, defensatus. 1535Coverdale Judith iii. 6 Holofernes..conquered all stronge fensed cities. 1600Fairfax Tasso ii. lxxv, In fensed towres bestowed is their graine. 1611Bible 2 Kings xvii. 9 They built them high places..from the tower of the watchmen, to the fenced city. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 207 Fenced goods that ye can⁓not intromit with. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 203, I might have beheld our fenced cities encompassed with armies. 1853Marsden Early Purit. 77 The fenced enclosures of a university. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings xii. 198 He speaks..of its villages and fenced cities. 1957New Yorker 29 June 64/3 An enormous, fenced-in storage area piled high with crates and packages. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. Suppl. 1 He..pushed the pair of us into a..fenced-in yard. |