Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incarceration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incarceration \In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.]
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined;
imprisonment. --Glanvill.
2. (Med.)
(a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
(b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it
irreducible, but not great enough to cause
strangulation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
incarceration
n : the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity
until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
"his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he
practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle
dungeon" [syn: {captivity}, {imprisonment}, {immurement}]
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