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Definition of Confines
1. Noun. A bounded scope. "He stayed within the confines of the city"
Definition of Confines
1. Noun. The borders or limits of an area. ¹
2. Noun. Elements that restrain someone. ¹
3. Noun. The scope or range of a subject. ¹
4. Verb. (third-person singular of confine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confines
1. confine [v] - See also: confine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confines
Literary usage of Confines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... 320 The confines met of empyrean Heaven And of this World, and on the left
hand Hell With long reach interpos'dj three ..."
2. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... Tne Pel°- a fortified town on the confines of Attica and Boeotia, advance to
which was garrisoned by the Athenians in time of war, wh"c'h 'ti,ey and was ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"court, which had gradually retreated from the confines of Thrace to the more
secure station of Sirmium. Five months after the death of Valens the emperor ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On the whole the Catholic press confines its attention to Catholic interests
without entering into the social or political affairs of the country. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"THE CLOUD confines THE day is dark and the night To him that would search their
heart; No lips of cloud that will part. Nor morning song in the light: Only, ..."
6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"An academy which merely undertakes to furnish such instructions, or in other
words an academy which confines its dictation to questions of style, ..."
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