ppl. a. [f. CAGE v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Confined in, or as in, a cage.

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., Induct. ii. 38. Twentie caged Nightingales do sing.

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1649.  Pref. verses Gregory’s Posthuma (T.).

        Yet the cag’d Votarie did wider dwell,
Then Thou, in thy large Roof, and spreading Cell.

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1720.  Gay, Poems (1745), II. 170. The cag’d linnet.

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  † 2.  Closed like a cage. nonce-use.

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1609.  Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 249. She would the caged cloister flie.

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