Confine vs Seclude - What's the difference?

As an adjective confine

is stale.

to shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.

(confin)

To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

* Shakespeare

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!

* Dryden

He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .

* Milton

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

* Dryden

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

(en noun)

Limit.

* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----

(en-verb)

To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.

To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

* secluded * secludedly