Definition of "encaged" [encaged]

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

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• "Sadia Rai, a ‘dogmatic painterÂ’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube."
• "They ran, tottering like elderly little men on walkers, their legs stiff from a life encaged."
• "Although we tend to imagine the Renaissance humanists to be encaged in a closed universe, awaiting the liberating flights of Columbus and Copernicus, Federico da Montefeltro's rise from military captain (with questionable birthright) to duke offers an example of the capacity, through shrewd diplomacy, to seduce fortuna and intervene in one's own fate."