compinge

To compress; to shut up (confine).

Verb

  1. To compress; to shut up (confine).
    • Into what straits hath it been compinged - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,...

Origin

From Latin compingere.

Forms

compinges compinging compinged