Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To hold inside.

*

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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(lb) To include as a part.

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(lb) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.

*

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

To have as an element.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

* Bible, vii. 9.

But if they can not contain , let them marry.

Verb

(head)

(include)

Verb

(includ)

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.

To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.

The vacation package includes car rental.

Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.

up to and including page twenty-five

* Milton

The whole included race, his purposed prey.

* Shakespeare

The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

(obsolete) To enclose, confine.

*, New York, 2001, p.107:

I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.

* Shakespeare

Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.