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caged, ppl. a.|keɪdʒd|
[f. cage v. + -ed1.]
1. Confined in, or as in, a cage. Also with in.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. ii. 38 Twentie caged Nightingales do sing. 1650Pref. verses Gregory's Posthuma (T.) The cag'd votary did wider dwell Than thou. 1720Gay Poems (1745) II. 170 The cag'd linnet. 1899K. Grahame Dream Days 15 ‘What's that got to do with it?’ retorted his sister, resuming her caged-lion promenade. 1937W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year, A bookworm..Timid, half-blind, caged-in, afraid.
†2. Closed like a cage. nonce-use.
1609Shakes. Lover's Compl. 249 She would the caged cloister flie. |