KJV Dictionary Definition: imprison

imprison

IMPRIS'ON, v.t. impriz'n.

1. To put into a prison; to confine in a prison or jail, or to arrest and detain in custody in any place.

2. To confine; to shut up; to restrain from escape; to deprive of the liberty to move from place to place; as, to be imprisoned in a cell.

He imprisoned was in chains remediless.

Try to imprison the resistless winds.

imprisoned

IMPRIS'ONED, pp. Confined in a prison or jail; restrained from escape or from going at large.

imprisoning

IMPRIS'ONING, ppr. Shutting up in prison; confining in a place.

imprisonment

IMPRIS'ONMENT, n. The act of putting and confining in prison;

the act of arresting and detaining in custody.

1. Confinement in a place; restraint of liberty to go from place to place at pleasure. Appropriately, the confinement of a criminal or debtor within the walls of a prison, or in the custody of a sheriff, &c.

False imprisonment is any confinement of the person, or restraint of liberty, without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant executed at an unlawful time, is false imprisonment.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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