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.
| 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vi. 12 Such a pleasure as incaged Birds Conceiue, When, etc. 1595 Spenser Sonn. lxxiii, Doe you him..in your bosome bright..encage. a 1631 Donne Poems (1635) 152 Bajazet encag'd, the shepheards scoffe. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xlii, A cave the winds encaging. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 191 Like as a Bird that hath beene long encaged. 1791 Bentham Panopt. 37 Noise, the only offence by which a man thus encaged could render himself troublesome. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxi, The generous soul..Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage. 1843 Blackw. Mag. LIII. 675 The æolus [is there] to recall and encage the tempestuous elements of strife. 1854 Thackeray Newcomes I. 114 The two little canary birds encaged in her window. |