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Imprisoned

adjective

Being in captivity. Synonyms: captive, confined, jailed.

Imprison

verb

(past & past part. imprisoned; pres. part. imprisoning)

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand. "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

Confine as if in a prison.

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"Imprisoned" Quotes from Famous Books

... want to be quite certain of getting it. Now, is your friend to be absolutely depended upon in that respect? You see, if this insurrection should fail—as it probably will—your friend may be killed, or imprisoned, and all his property confiscated; and then I may whistle ...

— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood

... time shown himself the ablest and boldest man in Darien, and his influence and power grew steadily until the settlers voted him their governor. Enciso was seized and imprisoned, and finally was sent to Spain. With him went one of Balboa's chief supporters, in order to gain for him from the king the royal right ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III • Charles Morris

... a perusal of this work may enable the young mind to form a more lively idea of the tremendous energy of the forces which are imprisoned in the bowels of the earth. Such a vivid conception will naturally lead to a higher appreciation of the wisdom and power of Him who guides the operation of those forces by his laws, and has set bounds to their ...

— Wonders of Creation • Anonymous

... and enlisting in the Confederate Army. The history of the suffering, trials, and fate of this daring band is one of the most thrilling and tragic of the war. It is too long to be here told. The captured were imprisoned at Chattanooga, and Andrews, the leader (after making one attempt to escape), was heavily ironed, and a scaffold was prepared at Chattanooga for his execution, but for some reason he and his companions were transferred ...

— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer

... the Chancellor's Court furnish us with instances of the enforcement of these regulations. In 1434, a scholar is found wearing a dagger and is sentenced to be "inbocardatus,"[1] i.e. imprisoned in the Tower of the North Gate of the city, and another offender, in 1442, suffers a day's imprisonment, pays his fine of two shillings, and forfeits his arms. In the same year, John Hordene, a scholar of Peckwater Inn, is fined six shillings and eightpence for breaking the head of Thomas ...

— Life in the Medieval University • Robert S. Rait

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