† confinern.¹

Etymology: < confine n.¹ or confine v. (1, 2) + -er suffix¹. (Daniel accents conˈfiner.)

Obsolete.

a. One who dwells on the confines; a borderer, neighbour.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour

nexteOE

neighboureOE

neighbouressa1425

promea1425

confines1531

door-neighbour1562

confiner1599

by-dweller1611

by-inhabitanta1657

Mrs Next-Door1855

nigh-dweller1867

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 7 The..franchises, priuileges she [sc. Yarmouth] is endowed with beyond all het [sic] confiners.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 225 We are..become no longer confiners, but inland inhabiters.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) xii. 187 [He] may be a terrour unto the confiners on that Sea.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 19 Lime and Wood are insociable, and..unfit Confiners.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §609 The Participles or Confiners between Plants and Living Creatures, are such chiefly, as are Fixed..as are Oysters, Cockles, and such like.

2. One living within the confines, an inhabitant.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of a district or parish > [noun]

parishen?c1225

parishioner1462

provinciala1475

hundreder1501

parochian1502

local1591

confiner1595

palatine1610

provincialist1656

shiremana1825

dozener-

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. lxix. sig. D4^v Happy confiners you of other landes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 339 The Senate hath stirr'd vp the Confiners, And Gentlemen of Italy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

confinern.²

/kənˈfʌɪnə/

Etymology: < confine v. + -er suffix¹.

rare.

One who or that which confines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > that which

fetterOE

shackle?c1225

cagec1300

chainc1374

to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380

corda1382

gablea1555

obligation1582

hamper1613

tethera1628

girdlea1630

confiner1654

trammela1657

cramp1719

swathe1864

tie1868

lockstep1963

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which