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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.]
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Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. --Milton.
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Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. --Dryden.
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Confine \Con"fine\, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
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Events that came to pass within the confines of
Judea. --Locke.
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And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. --Milton.
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On the confines of the city and the Temple.
--Macaulay.
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2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
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Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak.
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The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. --Shak.
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Confine \Con*fine"\ (k[o^]n*f[imac]n"), 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.
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Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak.
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He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and
the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden.
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{To be confined}, to be in childbed.

Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose;
circumscribe; restrict.
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