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PRISON, n. priz'n. [L. prendo.]

1. In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail. Originally, a prison, as Lord Coke observes, was only a place of safe custody; but it is now employed as a place of punishment. We have state-prisons, for the confinement of criminals by way of punishment.

2. Any place of confinement or restraint.

The tyrant Aeolus,

With power imperial curbs the struggling winds,

And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.

3. In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Eccles.4.

4. The cave where David was confined. Ps.142.

5. A state of spiritual bondage. Is.42.
1913 Definition
Prison (prison)
n.(?; 277)
Pris"on
[F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile, and cf. Prize, , Misprision.]
  1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o(?) confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

    Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7.

    The tyrant Æolus, . . .
    With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,
    And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.     Dryden.

  2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

    Prison bars, or Prison base. See Base, n., 24. -- Prison breach. (Law) See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4. -- Prison house, a prison. Shak. -- Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

  3. To imprison] to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

    The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott.

    His true respect will prison false desire. Shak.

  4. To bind (together); to enchain.
    [Obs.]

    Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led
    Together prisoned.     Robert of Brunne.

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