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- nonstandardrareuncountableThe quality of being confined.
Predisposed to consumption in no other way, only by confination of body; he was somewhat stooped over, and flat-chested; one side a little more flattened than the other[…]
1857, The Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences
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