verb
definition
To entangle, as in a net.
definition
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Examples of trammelled in a Sentence
It is not trammelled by the logic and reasoning of the conscious mind, and it is far more profound.
It never again obtained a footing there; for, although, late in the middle ages, the book of Revelation - by what means we cannot tell - did recover its authority, the Church was by that time so hopelessly trammelled by a magical cultus as to be incapable of fresh developments.
He then became prominent as an advocate on the one hand of religious freedom (much trammelled at the time by Prussian state laws) and on the other of reform within the Jewish community.
The sudden flash which disclosed to the eyes of Hebal the whole epic of humanity cannot be reproduced in language trammelled by time and space.
In addition, impartiality implies fairness, although its application may be trammelled by the overall constraints of adjudication.