Meaning of INCARCERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `ink`ârsur'eyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" |
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| | Synonyms: | | captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| | See Also: | | confinement, durance, internment, life imprisonment | |
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| | Definition: | | \In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.]
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined;
imprisonment. --Glanvill.
2. (Med.)
(a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
(b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it
irreducible, but not great enough to cause
strangulation.
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| | Definition: | | Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary. |
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| | Related Terms: | | beleaguerment, besetment, blockade, blockading, captivity, circumscription, close arrest, confinement, cordoning, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, hard labor, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, inclusion, internment, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, penal servitude, picketing, quarantine, railriding, rock pile, siege, strappado, tar-and-feathering, term of imprisonment, the gantlet, torment, torture |
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