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Webster 1913 Edition
Imprison
Im-pris′on
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Imprisoned
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Imprisoning
.] 1.
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
He
imprisoned
was in chains remediless. Spenser.
2.
To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
Syn. – To incarcerate; confine; immure.
Webster 1828 Edition
Imprison
IMPRIS'ON
,Verb.
T.
1.
To put into a prison; to confine in a prison or jail, or to arrest and detain in custody in any place.2.
To confine; to shut up; to restrain from escape; to deprive of the liberty to move from place to place; as, to be imprisoned in a cell. He imprisoned was in chains remediless.
Try to imprison the resistless winds.