verb
definition
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
definition
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
adjective
definition
Not free to move.
definition
Limited; narrow; restricted.
definition
In childbed.
Examples of confined in a Sentence
At least the dog is confined to the floor.
A conference took place confined to the magnates sitting at the table.
In the past, knowing the wise thing to do was a power confined to a few.
In 1123 he was captured by Balak of Mardin, and confined in Kharput with Joscelin, his successor in the county of Edessa, who had been captured in the previous year.
Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever?
I think the range of problems that technology can solve is confined to technological problems.
This custom, which has been defined as the invasion of actual marriage by allotting permanent paramours, is confined to a special set of tribes.
I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
Although in late Tertiary times widely spread over southern Europe and India, giraffes are now confined to Africa south of the Sahara.
The observations were usually confined to a few hours of the day, very commonly between II A.M.
The mining industry in Sardinia is confined in the main to the south-western portion of the island.
In 1595 the first Dutch expedition sailed from the Texel, but it took a more southerly course than its predecessors and confined its operations to Java and the neighbouring islands.
Beyond the paddock was the area where he had confined the buffalo cow.
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
The marine facies of the later Tertiaries is confined to the neighbourhood of the coast, and was probably formed after the elevation of the Andes; but inland, freshwater deposits of this period are met with, especially in Patagonia.
The defences of the place are now solely confined to the island of Danholm, known down to the 13th century as Strehla or Strehlo, lying in the Sound.
The judicial powers of the county court are confined to probate, the appointment of executors, administrators and other personal representatives, and the settlement of their accounts, matters relating to apprentices and to contested elections for county and district officers.
In the earliest periods of Christian art this splendour was confined to the figures of the persons of the Godhead, but it was afterwards extended to the Virgin Mary and to several of the saints.
The method in Great Britain is almost entirely confined to places of public assembly, but in Warm air FIG.
This article is confined to summarizing the philosophical or scientific arguments for, and objections to, the doctrine of the persistence of the human soul after death.
While Fred had chatted amiably during the course of the two weeks, he confined his discussions to methods that might be used in finding and identifying Byrne, and never complained about having to remain in Parkside.
Henceforward he repressed all projects of reckless enterprise, and confined himself to the gradual expansion and consolidation of the empire.
Despite the fact that with the exception of the period of the "Great Awakening" (1740-1742), when he preached as an itinerant in several neighbouring colonies, his active labours were confined to his own parish, his influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher Jonathan Edwards.
Hops cover only about 7000 acres, being almost confined to the departments of Nord, Cte dOr and Meurthe-etMoselle.
Although the timbers of commercial value are confined practically to the eastern and a portion of the western coastal belt and a few inland tracts of Australia, they constitute an important national asset.
The right of voting being confined to members of the Communist party, the Government represented by no means one really elected by universal suffrage but rather a dictatorship of the lower classes.
The right of suffrage is confined by the constitution to adult male citizens who have resided in the state for one year.
But Einstein's work has been by no means confined to such abstract questions.
For a time he was confined as a debtor in the king's bench prison.
She dreaded entering, wanting a moment of peace before being confined within the spartanly furnished room with the manic Arnie Smith.
Though the view from my door was still more contracted, I did not feel crowded or confined in the least.
Taran's skin crawled with the charge of magic in the confined chamber, and he watched Memon bend over Rissa.
During the Gothic wars, however, trade was confined to Portus, and the ravages of pirates led to its gradual abandonment.
In 1893 the Roman Bank was put into liquidation, and the other three limited companies were fused, so as to create the Bank of Italy, the privilege of issuing bank notes being thenceforward confined to the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Naples and the Bank of Sicily.
Auricula is confined to the East Indies and Peru.
The Ampullaridae are confined to the tropics.
On the 4th of April 1871 he was arrested by the communists as a hostage, and confined in the prison at Mazas, from which he was transferred to La Roquette on the advance of the army of Versailles.
The parts are easy of transport and can be handled without difficulty through narrow doorways and in confined situations.
Presbyterian discipline is now entirely confined to exclusion from membership or from office.
Navigable canals had in 1886 a total length of abput 655 m.; they are principally situated in Piedmont, Lombardy and Venetia, and are thus practically confined to the P0 basin.
These establishments are, however, unsatisfactory, being mostly situated on small islands, where it is often difficult to find work for the coatti, who are free by day, being only confined at night.
At first, indeed, the term was apparently confined to the regions of the central and southern districts, exclusive of Cisalpine Gaul and the whole tract north of the Apennines, and this continued to be the official or definite signification of the name down to the end of the republic. But the natural limits of Italy are so clearly marked that the name came to be generally employed as a geographical term at a much earlier period.
The movement was confined chiefly to the northern and central provinces.
The writers mentioned dealt with Roman history as a whole; some of the annalists, however, confined themselves to shorter periods.
On the 14th of September 1553 he was sent to the Tower, where Ridley and Latimer were also confined.
The Udgatri's duties being mainly confined to the chanting of hymns made up of detached groups of verses of the Rigveda, as collected in the Samaveda-samhita, the more important Brahmanas of this sacerdotal class deal chiefly with the various modes of chanting, and the modifications which the verses have to undergo in their musical setting.
Anselm tells us that a most perfect being must exist, since the perfection which includes existence is manifestly greater than a perfection confined to an object of thought.
He left open the question whether the capability of sensation belongs to all matter, or is confined to the combinations of certain materials.
In the Origin of Species, and in his other numerous and important contributions to the solution of the problem of biological evolution, Darwin confined himself to the discussion of the causes which have brought about the present condition of living matter, assuming such matter to have once come into existence.
The existing ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England is therefore now confined to the following points.