Word Meanings - REIMPRISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To imprison again.

AGAINSTAND
To withstand.
AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif.
IMPRISON
1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
IMPRISONMENT
The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
IMPRISONER
One who imprisons.
AGAINWARD
Back again.
AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif.
THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
REIMPRISON
To imprison again.
REIMPRISONMENT
The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.