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Webster 1913 Edition

(-ā̍j)

Noun.

[LL.

bondagium

. See

Adj.

]

The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my

bondage

hard.

Dryden.

Obligation; tie of duty.

He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the

bondage

of observing oaths.

South.

(Old Eng. Law)

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Syn. – Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.

Noun.

Slavery or involuntary servitude; captivity; imprisonment; restraint of a person's liberty by compulsion. In ancient English law, villenage.

Obligation; tie of duty.

He must resolve not to be brought under the bondage of observing oaths.

In scripture, spiritual subjection to sin and corrupt passions, or to the yoke of the ceremonial law; servile fear. Heb.2. Gal.2. Rom.8.