Definition of In check

1. Prepositional phrase. Under restraint or control. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In Check

in black and white
in bloom
in bondage
in bonds(p)
in both ears
in breadth(p)
in brief
in broad daylight
in business
in camera
in case
in cash
in chains(p)
in character
in charge
in check (current term)
in chief
in chorus
in church
in circles
in clinical parlance
in clover
in cold blood
in collaboration
in college
in color
in commission
in common
in concert
in conclusion

Literary usage of In check

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Peach-scab and brown-rot can be held in check by several sprayings of the self-boiled lime- sulfur summer spray. 1. For scale and leaf-curl, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... under Count Tilly proved too weak to hold in check who could also count on the support of his father-in- both its internal and external enemies; ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The king can never be captured, but when any piece or pawn attacks him, he is said to be " in check," and the fact of bis being so attacked should be ..."

4. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"He was instructed to defeat or hold in check the army of General JE Johnston near Winchester, but he failed to effect this object, while Johnston marched to ..."

5. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"The enemy's movements in Virginia and Georgia both in check.— Disappointment of the enemy.—Statistics of Yankee recruiting.—Another Confederate success. ..."

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