Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section I. General Intersocial Volition

751. Restraint.

   NOUN:RESTRAINT; hindrance [See Hindrance]; coercion (compulsion) [See Compulsion]; cohibition [rare], constraint, repression; discipline, control.
  limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition [See Prohibition]; economic pressure.
  CONFINEMENT, restringency [obs.], durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation [obs.], entombment, mancipation [obs.], thrall; thralldom (subjection) [See Subjection]; durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade; detention camp; quarantine station.
  ARREST, arrestation [rare], arrestment, custody.
  KEEP, care, charge, ward.
  curb (means of restraint) [See Prison]; lettres de cachet [F.].
  REPRESSIONIST, monopolist, protectionist.
  PRISONER [See Prisoner].
   VERB:RESTRAIN, check; put -, lay- under restraint, put under arrest; enthrall or enthral, inthrall or inthral, bethrall or bethral; restrict; debar (hinder) [See Hindrance]; constrain; coerce (compel) [See Compulsion]; curb, control; hold -, keep- -back, – from, – in, – in check, – within bounds; hold in -leash, – leading strings; withhold.
  repress, suppress; keep under; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, – fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit [See Prohibition]; inhibit, cohibit.
  FASTEN (join) [See Junction]; enchain, fetter, shackle; entrammel, trammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one’s hands, hobble, bind, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie, – up, – down; peg -out, – down; keep [archaic], secure; forge fetters.
  CONFINE; shut -up, – in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose (circumscribe) [See Circumscription]; cage; incage or encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, jug [slang], immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap -, lay- under hatches; put in -irons, – a strait-waistcoat; throw -, cast- into prison; put into bilboes.
  ARREST; take -up, – charge of, – into custody; restringe [rare], cohibit [rare]; take -, make- -prisoner, – captive; captivate [rare]; lead -captive, – into captivity; send -, commit- to prison; commit; give in -charge, – custody; subjugate [See Subjection].
   ADJECTIVE:RESTRAINED, constrained; imprisoned &c. v.; pent up; jammed in, packed in, wedged in; under -restraint, – lock and key, – hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; serving -, doing- time [colloq. or slang]; in irons, in the guardhouse; in custody (prisoner) [See Prisoner]; cohibitive [rare]; mancipatory [Rom. law]; coactive (compulsory) [See Compulsion].
  icebound, windbound, weatherbound; “cabined, cribbed, confined” [Macbeth]; in lob’s pound, laid by the heels.
  STIFF, restringent [obs.], narrow, prudish, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound.
   ADVERB:UNDER RESTRAINT, under discipline; in prison, in jail, in durance vile, in confinement; behind bars; in captivity, during captivity; under arrest; under prohibition; within limits, within bounds.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Checked like a bondman.—Julius Cæsar
2. You forget yourself To hem me in.—Browning
3. Her cabin’d ample spirit.—Arnold