v. [f. EN-1, IN- + CAGE sb.; cf. Fr. encager.] trans. To confine in, or as in, a cage. Hence Encaged ppl. a.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. vi. 12. Such a pleasure as incaged Birds Conceiue, When [etc.].
1595. Spenser, Sonn., lxxiii. Doe you him … in your bosome bright … encage.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems (1635), 152. Bajazet encag’d, the shepheards scoffe.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. xlii. 27. A cave the windes encaging.
1633. Earl Manch., Al Mondo (1636), 191. Like as a Bird that hath beene long encaged.
1791. Bentham, Panopt., 37. Noise, the only offence by which a man thus encaged could render himself troublesome.
1811. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxxi. The generous soul … Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIII. 675. The Æolus [is there] to recall and encage the tempestuous elements of strife.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 114. The two little canary birds encaged in her window.
