Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PRIS'ON, v.t. [impriz'n; Fr. emprisonner; in and prison.]

1. To put into a prison; to confine in a prison or jail, or to arrest and detain. In custody in any place.
2. To confine; to shut up; to restrain from escape; to be imprisoned in a cell. He imprisoned was in chains remediless. Spenser. Try to imprison the resistless winds. Dryden.