[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
† 1. Bordering, neighboring, adjoining, adjacent: cf. CONFINE v. 1. (Often placed after its noun, as a participle; cf. adjacent, adjoining.) Obs.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, IV. iii. To dallie with confining Potentates.
1605. Camden, Rem., 95. In Normandy and the countries confining.
1654. Cokaine, Dianea, I. 57. To raise a great Army would … beget suspicion in his confining Princes.
2. That confines; bounding, limiting, restricting, etc.: see the verb.
1595. Shaks., John, II. i. 338. Euen thy confining shores.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 169. Make one mans Particular Phansies, or perhaps failings, Confining Laws to others.
1887. A. Austin, Pr. Lucifer, in Athenæum, 3 Dec., 742/3. By whose fermenting may his fancy rise Beyond the level of confining fact.
