v. t. To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [ R. ] Bulwer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Obs. ] See Imprison. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
He imprisoned was in chains remediless. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden.
n. One who imprisons. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. enprisonment; F. emprisonnement. ] The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]
His sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
False imprisonment. (Law)
n. [ F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile, and cf. Prize, n., Misprision. ]
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
The tyrant Aeolus, . . .
With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,
And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Prison bars,
Prison base
Prison breach. (Law)
Prison house,
Prison ship (Naut.),
Prison van,
v. t.
The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
His true respect will prison false desire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led
Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. prisonnier. ]
Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
Prisoner's base.
n. Imprisonment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To imprison again. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned. [ 1913 Webster ]
See under State, n. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + prison. ] To take or deliver from prison. [ 1913 Webster ]