confiner

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
    — […] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana.
  2. A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour. obsolete
    — 1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4, So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need; Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst, And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed:
  3. A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant. obsolete
    — The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits, That promise noble service […]
  4. A prisoner incarcerated for a set term. obsolete
    — 1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64, Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour.

词形变化

confiners plural confiners plural

词源

词源 1
From confine (verb) + -er.
词源 2
From confine (noun) + -er.
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