English
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
Adjective
cabined and cribbed
- 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, 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, 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, Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries.
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