Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Imprison

Imprison , transitive verb

[Old English enprisonen, Old French enprisoner, French emprisonner; pref. en- (Latin in) + French & Old French prison. See Prison.]

1.
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
He imprisoned was in chains remediless. — Spenser
2.
To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
Try to imprison the resistless wind. — Dryden