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Fenced. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Fenced ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In various senses of the vb. a. Furnished with defences, fortified. Now only in Biblical phraseology. b. Provided with a hedge or rail, railed off, enclosed, lit. and fig. Also fenced in. c. Sc. Law. Poinded; see FENCE v. 8 c.

1 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 155/1. Fencyd, or defencyd, defensus, munitus, defensatus.

2 1535.  Coverdale, Judith iii. 6. Then came Holofernes downe from the mountaynes with horsemen & great power, and conquered all stronge fensed cities, and all that dwelt in the londe.

3 1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, II. lxxv.        Th’inhabitants each pasture and each plaine Destroied haue, each field to waste is lade, In fensed towres bestowed is their graine, Before thou cam’st this kingdome to inuade.

4 1611.  Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 9. They built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen, to the fenced city.

5 1637.  Rutherford, Lett., lxxxii. (1863), I. 207. Let pleasures and gain, will and desires of this world, be put over into God’s hands, as arrested and fenced goods that ye cannot intromit with.

6 1746–7.  Hervey, Medit. (1818), 203. I might have beheld our fenced cities encompassed with armies, and our fruitful fields ‘clothed with desolation.’

7 1853.  Marsden, The History of the Early Puritans, 77. Cartwright, if dissatisfied, should have at once retired, and challenged other hearers than his pupils, and upon some other tilting-ground than the fenced enclosures of a university.

8 1853.  Maurice, Proph. & Kings, xii. 192. He speaks, they say, of its hills and valleys, of its villages and fenced cities, in a way which shows that he had been brought up among them.

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