imbound

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ bound.

Verb

imbound (third-person singular simple present imbounds, present participle imbounding, simple past and past participle imbounded)

1. (archaic) To enclose in limits; to shut in.

   Synonym: embound

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
     Which was imbounded in this beauteous clay

References

“imbound”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.