† impentadj.
Obsolete.
Pent in; shut in a pen or fold; enclosed; confined.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > enclosed in pen, stall, etc.
enclosed1552
stalled1560
impent1633
shedded1850
ox-fenced1852
penning1854
coted1866
impounded1888
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > [adjective] > enclosed or confined
upshetc1440
pinneda1450
close1489
pent1542
boxed?1548
impent1633
upshut1658
confined1796
shut-in1849
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adjective] > confined
bounda1382
reclusedc1443
incarcerate1528
immurate1593
wall-fastc1593
immured1596
up-pent1600
confined1605
cageda1616
impent1633
straitened1757
hemmed in1894
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iii. xii. 31 As they runne in narrow banks impent.
1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. . v. 67 When winds impent, Make Pelion tremble to Astonishment.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xxxiv, in Poems (1878) IV. 9 Neighbour Kings (Impent Wth Horror at the fact, in their owne Right,) Hee Courts by his Ambassadors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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