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prison 音标拼音: [pr'ɪzən]
n. 监狱,监禁,拘留所
vt. 监禁 监狱,监禁,拘留所监禁 prison n 1: a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment [ synonym: { prison}, { prison house}] 2: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement [ synonym: { prison}, { prison house}] Prison \ Pris" on\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Prisoned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Prisoning}.] 1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty. [ 1913 Webster] The prisoned eagle dies for rage. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] His true respect will prison false desire. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To bind ( together); to enchain. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. -- Robert of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster]
Prison \ Pris" on\ (?; 277), n. [ F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See { Prehensile}, and cf. { Prize}, n., { Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o? confinement, restraint, or safe custody. [ 1913 Webster] Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. -- Ps. cxlii. 7. [ 1913 Webster] The tyrant Aeolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority. [ 1913 Webster] { Prison bars}, or { Prison base}. See { Base}, n., 24. { Prison breach}. ( Law) See Note under 3d { Escape}, n., 4. { Prison house}, a prison. -- Shak. { Prison ship} ( Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. { Prison van}, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison. [ 1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for " prison": POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, chokey, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, confinement, constrain, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention, detention camp, dungeon, federal prison, forced- labor camp, gaol, glasshouse, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, immure, incarcerate, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum- security prison, minimum- security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, poky, prison camp, prisonhouse, quod, reform school, reformatory, slammer, sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training schoolPrison The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, " Joseph' s master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king' s prisoners were bound" ( Gen. 39: 20- 23). The Heb. word here used ( sohar) means properly a round tower or fortress. It seems to have been a part of Potiphar' s house, a place in which state prisoners were kept. The Mosaic law made no provision for imprisonment as a punishment. In the wilderness two persons were " put in ward" ( Lev. 24: 12; Num. 15: 34), but it was only till the mind of God concerning them should be ascertained. Prisons and prisoners are mentioned in the book of Psalms ( 69: 33; 79: 11; 142: 7). Samson was confined in a Philistine prison ( Judg. 16: 21, 25). In the subsequent history of Israel frequent references are made to prisons ( 1 Kings 22: 27; 2 Kings 17: 4; 25: 27, 29; 2 Chr. 16: 10; Isa. 42: 7; Jer. 32: 2). Prisons seem to have been common in New Testament times ( Matt. 11: 2; 25: 36, 43). The apostles were put into the " common prison" at the instance of the Jewish council ( Acts 5: 18, 23; 8: 3); and at Philippi Paul and Silas were thrust into the " inner prison" ( 16: 24; comp. 4: 3; 12: 4, 5). PRISON. A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison. 6 John. R. 22. 2. An illegal prison is one not authorized by law, but established by private authority; when the confinement is illegal, every place where the party is arrested is a prison; as, the street, if he be detained in passing along. 4 Com. Dig. 619; 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 18, s. 4; 1 Buss. Cr. 378; 2 Inst. 589.
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