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1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. 2. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. 3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. 4. 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" 
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