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confined, ppl. a.|kənˈfaɪnd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Bounded, limited, restricted, restrained, shut up, enclosed, imprisoned, etc.: see the verb.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas (1641), Assigning each a fit confined Sitting. 1644H. Parker Jus Pop. 37 A lord may have a more confined power over his slave, than he has over himself. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xiv. 232 Had..Providence..blessed me with confined desires. 1771Contemplative Man I. 2, I shall therefore be very short and confin'd in what I am going to say. 1796C. Marshall Garden. iii. (1813) 30 Trees..planted in a confined space. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 89 The elastic force of the confined air.
absol.1790Pennant Lond. (1813) 302 The Spinhuis..where the confined sit under the eye of a matron spinning or sewing. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz (1866) 23 In visiting the confined.
b. Of the bowels: constipated.
1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 195 When the bowels are loose in youth, they commonly become confined in advanced life. 1871Sir T. Watson Princ. & Pract. Physic (ed. 5) II. 866 His bowels are irregular, often confined.
c. confined man, confined labourer (Lincolnsh.): one hired by the year, and so confined to work for the master who has hired him.
1868Gainsburgh News 27 June, A confined labourer, a married man who can clip sheep and work on a farm. 1886Cole S.W. Linc. Gloss., Confined man,—‘He was confined man at Aubur, and would like to get a confined place again’. 1888Daily News 20 July 3/7 There are in Lincolnshire a numerous body of ‘confined labourers’.
Hence conˈfinedly adv.; conˈfinedness, state or quality of being confined.
1639W. Sclater Worthy Commun. 36 The confinednesse of his finite humane Nature to one place. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies ix. (1658) 79 The limitation and confinedness of every magnitude unto just what it is. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. 405 [Applied] confinedly to these Elders. a1761Hoadly Lett. liii. (R.). c1802Lamb Life & Lett. (1837) I. 214 The beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called. Mod. The confinedness of the site. |