| 释义 |
encage, incage, v.|ɛn-, ɪnˈkeɪdʒ|
[f. en-1, in- + cage n.; cf. Fr. encager.]
trans. To confine in, or as in, a cage. Hence enˈcaged, ppl. a.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vi. 12 Such a pleasure as incaged Birds Conceiue, When, etc. 1595Spenser Sonn. lxxiii, Doe you him..in your bosome bright..encage. a1631Donne Poems (1635) 152 Bajazet encag'd, the shepheards scoffe. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xlii, A cave the winds encaging. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 191 Like as a Bird that hath beene long encaged. 1791Bentham Panopt. 37 Noise, the only offence by which a man thus encaged could render himself troublesome. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxi, The generous soul..Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 675 The æolus [is there] to recall and encage the tempestuous elements of strife. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 114 The two little canary birds encaged in her window. |