bondages
plural of bondage
• dogbanes, dogs-bane, endobags
Source: Wiktionary
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
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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