Bond"age (?), n. [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
Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
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