Definition of Caged

1. a. Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.

Definition of Caged

1. Adjective. In a cage. ¹

2. Verb. (past of cage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Caged

1. cage [v] - See also: cage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caged

cage bird
cage birds
cage compound
cage compounds
cage dances
cage diving
cage fighter
cage fighters
cage fighting
cage in
cage match
cagebird
cagebirds
caged (current term)
caged ATP
cageful
cagefuls
cageless
cagelike
cageling
cagelings
cagemate
cagemates
cager
cagers
cages
cagework
cageworks

Literary usage of Caged

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

1. Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's by George Whitefield Samson, Making of America Project (1874)
"ANIMAL ACCESSORIES; SMALLER AND LARGER QUADRUPEDS WILD AND DOMESTIC; BIRDS FREE OR caged; FISH AND REPTILES. The water, the air and the dry land were ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"caged IN CHINA. BY STANLEY LANE-POOLE. LEGENDS about cages seem to take an ... Natives are, of course, constantly caged, not by way of torture, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"HCW On the Effect of Music on caged Animals.—Some time ago the writer was induced to experiment upon the animals in the Zoological Garden in Lincoln Park, ..."

4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"OR, THE caged HAWK. No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert life for thee ; No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping free : Blunt ..."

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