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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
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 ..."