Definition of "distrained" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of distrain. (verb)

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• "She and Jacob had Judah jailed and his possessions distrained because he had married a Portuguese Jewish woman in Pesaro."
• "His London life was equally disastrous. he made a start with his stock-in-trade, was constantly on the move, in dread of being distrained for rent; half starved, and in a sorry plight."
• "His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her."