incagement

English

Etymology

incage +‎ -ment

Noun

incagement (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Confinement in, or as if in, a cage.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     I […] demaund, whether your worship since your incagement […] haue not had a desire to make greater or lesse water

References

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