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n. [Lat. confinium, a bordering upon, limit, confinis, bordering on, from con and finis, end, border; It. confine, confino, limit, Sp. confin, Fr. & Pg. confins, pl.] Common boundary; border; limit;—used chiefly in the plural, and applied to grand divisions of territory.
Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke.
And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world. Milton.
a. Bordering; lying on the border; adjacent; having a common boundary. [Rare.] Johnson.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. CONFINED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONFINING.] [Fr. confiner, Sp. & Pg. confinar, It. confinare, L. Lat. confinare.] 1. To restrain within limits; to bound; to immure; to keep close. *Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined; let order die.* Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. 2. To convey beyond limits; to expel. [Obs.] To be confined, to be in child-bed. Syn.—To bound; limit; restrain; circumscribe; restrict.
(Synop., § 130), v. i. [Fr. confiner, Pr., Sp., & Pg. confinar, It. confinare, L. Lat. confinare and confiniare.] To have a common boundary; to border; to touch the limit.
Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place Confining on all three. Dryden.