Verb

(ensur)

To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

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*:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

Verb

(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.