Obs. [See -DOM.] The state of being a churl or bondman.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pers. T., De Avaritia, ¶ 692 (Harl. MS.). This name of cherldom [so also Christch. MS.; other MSS. read thraldom] was never erst couth til Noe sayde that his sone Chanaan schulde be thral of his bretheren.
