BONDAGES

Noun

bondages

plural of bondage

Anagrams

• dogbanes, dogs-bane, endobags

Source: Wiktionary


BONDAGE

Bond"age, n. Etym: [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]

1. 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.

2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.

3. (Old Eng. Law)

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

Syn.

– Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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