immuredadj.
/ɪˈmjʊəd/ Enclosed in walls or as in walls; imprisoned, confined; built up in a wall.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adjective] > confined
bounda1382
reclusedc1443
incarcerate1528
immurate1593
wall-fastc1593
immured1596
up-pent1600
confined1605
cageda1616
impent1633
straitened1757
hemmed in1894
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. C2 The prisoner of emured darke constraint. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. Bv Among those immur'd hermites of Saint Hermogora.
1740 T. Gray Let. 2 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 146 The doors..we saw opened to him, and all the other immured Cardinals came thither to receive him.
1808 W. Scott Marmion Notes p. liii A female skeleton, which, from the shape of the niche, and position of the figure, seemed to be that of an immured nun.
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