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Definitions for encage
ɛnˈkeɪdʒencage
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encageverb
To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Encageverb
To shut up as in a cage; to coop up; to confine.
Etymology: from cage.
He suffer’d his kinsman March,
Who is, if every owner were right plac’d,
Indeed, his king, to be encag’d in Wales,
There without ransom to lie forfeited. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.Like Bajazet encag’d, the shepherds scoff,
Or like slack-sinew’d Sampson, his hair off,
Languish our ships. John Donne.
Webster Dictionary
Encageverb
to confine in a cage; to coop up
Etymology: [Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Encage
en-kāj′, v.t. to shut up in a cage.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of encage in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of encage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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