BONDAGE

Definitions

1. 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. 2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.
3. 3. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.