v. See also engaol (EN- prefix1 1). [f. EN-, IN- + JAIL. Cf. OFr. enjaioler.] trans. To shut up in, or as in, a jail; to imprison.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Progr. Soule, xviii. Poems (1633), 10 (R.). Her firme destiny Confin’d and enjayld her, that seem’d so free, Into a small blew shell.

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1855–9.  Singleton, Virgil, II. 245. One of the kine returned The sound … And, [though] injailed, the hope of Cacus balked.

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