Obs. Always pl. confines; also 6 -fins, -finies. [ad. L. confīn-is, -fīnem, neighbor, sb. use of confīnis adj.: see prec.] pl. The inhabitants of adjacent regions, neighbors.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xx. I haue diuers confins and neighbours.
c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 191. They became terrible to there confines.
1555. Eden, Decades, III. i. 89. Exchangynge golde for housholde stuffe with theyr confines whiche sumewhat esteeme the same.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. Babylon (1605), 420. If we talke but with our neere confines.
