Read full poem →found guilty; and Betterton and Mrs. Bracegirdle
were actually fined. These severities were not entirely
thrown away. From this period may be dated the in-
Dictionary Entry
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
In a Sentence
“to fine gold”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. finedfined heavily
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Poetry examples for “fined”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In the rain. When I turn away, on its fine stalk
Twilight has fined to naught, the parsley flower
Figures, suspended still and ghostly white,
Read full poem →amends to Woman for having made money in the past out of the
economic and physiological weakness of women. She had fined herself
Ten Thousand pounds then; and out of her remaining capital of Fifty
Read full poem →For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was fined five
hundred pounds: what was the sentence of the others is not known. Sedley
Read full poem →Of the maiden of yore
As my relic; yet haply the best of her—fined in my brain
It maybe the more