Definition of "confine" []

• To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. (verb-transitive)
• To shut or keep in, especially to imprison. (verb-transitive)
• To restrict in movement: The sick child was confined to bed. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To border. (verb-intransitive)
• The limits of a space or area; the borders: within the confines of one county. (noun)

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• "That a man should lay down his life for his friend seems strange to vulgar affections and such as confine themselves within that worldly principle, “Charity begins at home.”"
• "Indeed, it is nowadays oddly daring for a real artistic talent (that is, one properly attentive to considerations of language and truthfulness) to "confine" itself to this task."
• "Friend, seems strange to vulgar affections, and such as confine themselves within that Worldly principle, Charity begins at home."