We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
bondage (s.xiv1/4)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

bondage (s.xiv1/4)

Cite this entry
boundage  
  FEW:  *bindo *15/i,111a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  bende (bandage)  DMF:  bandage  TLF: ∅ OED:  bondage n.  MED:  bondage n.  DMLBS:  bondagium 206b
ls(loanword: M.E. )
le

s.

lawbondage, villeinage, tenure by villein service: 
( 1372 )  H. [...] jadys tenoit du dit count en bondage  GAUNT1 ii 104
♦lawland held in bondage: 
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  si la tere soit bondage dunt la sute est demandé  Nov Narr 82
( 1363 )  homages et bondages come les chiefs manoirs […]  Rot Parl1 ii 279
♦lawneifty: 
( 1372 )  touz maneres des accions, si bien reals come personels, tant de trespasses com de bondages  GAUNT1 i 76
tenant en bondage
tenant1
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
bondage