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cabined and cribbed
adjective
Confined, penned up, unable to make changes.
:
1869
The most
cabined, cribbed, and confined
creature in the world! I have been fighting my way up for the last four years, and have not allowed myself the liberty of one flirtation -- not often even the recreation of a natural laugh.
" Anthony Trollope,
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Phineas Finn.
:
1857
Phrenologically, my young friend, you would seem to have a well-developed head, and large; but
cribbed
within the ugly view, the Tacitus view, your large brain, like your large ox in the contracted field, will but starve the more.
" Herman Melville,
The Confidence-Man
,
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Chapter 5. :
1831
In this sense every man feels, while
cribbed in a cabin
of flesh, and shut up by the capricious and arbitrary injunctions of human communities, that he is not at home.
" William Godwin,
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Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries.
Etymology:
:
Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,:
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,:
As broad and general as the casing air::
But now I am
cabin'd, cribb'd, confined
, bound in:
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?" William Shakespeare,
Macbeth'', Act 3, Scene 4.From crib + cabin + confine
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