Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To confine in or as if in a cage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put in a cage; shut up or confine in a cage; hence, to coop up; confine to any narrow limits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To confine in a cage; to coop up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To lock inside a
cage ; toimprison .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And that's why most people at the top end of the hierarchy don't encage in this kind of behavior, much less repeatedly.
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I now had children of my own that I had begun to encage.
They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005
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They don't realize the consequences, and can we get stronger law passed, and, or, even encage those overpasses, so that this cannot happen anymore.
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I now had children of my own that I had begun to encage.
They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005
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I now had children of my own that I had begun to encage.
They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005
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House bars both day and night encage thee like a duck.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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House bars both day and night encage thee like a duck.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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The nightingale is universally admitted to be the most enchanting of warblers; and many might be tempted to encage the mellifluous songster, but for the supposed difficulty of procuring proper food for it.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 Various
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Ah, it is little short of a sin to encage a wild bird, beating its heart against the bars of its narrow cage, when the sun calls it to mount up with quivering ecstasy to the gates of day; but what a sin to bind the preacher of righteousness, and imprison him in sunless vaults -- what an agony!
John the Baptist 1888
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The intelligent author of the "Treatise on British Birds" does not condescend to justify the right we claim to encage them; but he shows his genuine humanity in instructing us how to render happy and healthful their imprisonment.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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