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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.</def>

<blockquote>They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the <b>configuration</b> of the stars at the moment of his birth. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Configure</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fig"ure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Configured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Configuring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>configurare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>configurer</ets>. See <er>Configurate</er>.]</ety> <def>To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.</def>

<i>Bentley.</i>

<h1>Confinable</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fin"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.</def>

<blockquote>Not <b>confinable</b> to any limits. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confine</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Confined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Confining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>confiner</ets> to border upon, LL. <ets>confinare</ets> to set bounds to; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>finis</ets> boundary, end. See <er>Final</er>, <er>Finish</er>.]</ety> <def>To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.</def>

<blockquote>Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood <b>confined</b>! let order die! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He is to <b>confine</b> himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To be confined</col>, <cd>to be in childbed.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.</syn>

<h1>Confine</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>or</tt> <def>(<?/); 277), <i>v. i.</i> To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by <i>on</i> or <i>with</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Where your g;oomy bounds <b>Confine</b> with heaven. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Beywixt hezven and earth and skies there stands a place. <b>Confuining</b> on all three. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confine</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.</def>

<blockquote>Events that came to pass within the <b>confines</b> of Judea. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And now in little space The <b>confines</b> met of emryrean heaven, And of this world. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>On the <b>confines</b> of the city and the Temple. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Apartment; place of restraint; prison.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Confines</b>, wards, and dungeons. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his <b>confine</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confineless</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fine`less</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without limitation or end; boundless.</def>