Bind v.

Pa. t. and pple. bound. Forms: 1 bind-an, 2–4 bind-en, 2–7 binde, (3–6 bynd(e, 4 bynd-en, 5 -yn), 3– bind. Pa. t. sing. 1–6 band, 1–5 bond, (3–5 bonde, 4–5 boond(e, 4–6 bande, bounde), 5– bound, (7 binded; Sc. band, ban’); pl. 1 bundon, 2–3 -en, 3 -e, 3–4 bounden, (4–5 bonde(n, 5– bound, (north. 4–5 bande, 5– band, ban’). Pa. pple. 1–4 bunden, (1–2 ʓebunden, 2–3 ibunde(n, 3–4 ibounde(n, 4 ybounde(n, 6 ybound), 4– bounden, 4–6 bounde, 5– bound, (also 3–4 bonden, 4 -in, boundoun, 4–5 bonde, -yn, boundon, -yn, 4–6 bownde(n, 5 bowndene, -yn(e, 6 -on, 7 binded; north. 4–6 bundin, 5 -yn, bwndyn, 6–7 bund, 5– bun). [Com. Teut.: OE. bindan, pa. t. band (bǫnd), pl. bundon, pple. bunden = OS. bindan (MDu., Du. binden), OFris., ON. binda (Sw. binda, Da. binde), OHG. bintan (MHG., mod.G. binden), Goth. bindan, pa. t. band, bundum, pple. bundans; cogn. with Skr. bandh:—Aryan *bhendh to bind. As in other words with -nd, the originally short vowels of bind, bunden (still retained in the north. dial., as in the cognate langs.) have been lengthened and diphthongized in midl. and south. Eng. The north. dial. also retains the original past form band (which it has extended to the pl.), while in the standard speech band was supplanted already in the 15th c. by bound, proper to the pl. and to the pa. pple.] General sense: To make fast with a band or bond.

  I.  To tie fast.

  1.  trans. To make fast with a tie; to fasten, tie up.

[c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gen. xlii. 24. He … nam Simeon and band hine beforan him.]

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2216. Ðo breðere seckes hauen he filt … And bunden ðe muðes.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 15871. His hend þai band and ledd him forth.

1535.  Coverdale, Gen. xxii. 9. Abraham … bande his sonne Isaac, layed him on the altare.

1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 7. Fast binde fast finde.

1804.  Abernethy, Surg. Observ., I. 215. The fascia, which binds it down in its situation.

1855.  Thackeray, Rose & Ring, xvii. They … bound his legs tight under his horse.

  b.  To tie fast to (on, upon).

c. 1205.  Lay., 16684. Samuel … lette hine swiðe sterke to ane stake binde [c. 1250 bynde].

1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., xcv. 75. They … take pyeces of tunder and of fire, and bonde it to the sparwes fete.

1611.  Bible, Deut. vi. 8. Thou shalt bind them for a seal upon thine hand.

  c.  fig.

1382.  Wyclif, Prov. vi. 21. Bind hem bisili in thin herte.

1563.  Mirr. Mag., Induct. xxxviii. To this poore life was Miserie ybound.

1610.  Healey, St. Aug. City of God, 438. To binde incomprehensible effectes to the lawes of nature.

1720.  Ozell, Vertot’s Rom. Rep., II. xiv. 328. To bind Cæsar faster to their Interest.

1810.  Scott, Lady of L., II. xxx. Distrust, and grief, Will bind to us each Western Chief.

1866.  Ecce Homo, xiv. (ed. 4), 166. To bind men to their kind.

  d.  esp. said of spiritual or ecclesiastical binding. (In reference to Matt. xvi. 19.)

c. 975.  Rushw. Gosp., Matt. xvi. 19. Swa hwæt swa þu bindes on eorðan ʓebunde biðon and in heofunum.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 65. Al þat prest bindeð soðliche buð ibunden.

a. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 3850. ‘Alle þat þou byndes in erthe,’ says he, ‘Sal in heven bunden be.’

1340.  Ayenb., 172. He ssel zeche zuch ane confessour þet conne bynde and onbynde.

c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 28. If ilk prest mai vse þe key … to assoile him, or ellis to bind him fro grace.

1611.  Bible, Matt. xvi. 19. Whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen.

  ¶ See also Branch IV.

  2.  esp. To make fast (any one) with bonds or fetters; to deprive of personal liberty, make a captive or prisoner.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 23. Hie hine swungon, & bundon, & spætledon on his onsyne.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 23. He ferde in to helle and … bond þe deuel.

1382.  Wyclif, Jer. xxxix. 7. He … bond [1388 boond] hym in gyues. Ibid., Matt. xiv. 3. Forsothe Eroude helde Joon, & bounde hym, & putte him in to prisoun.

1535.  Coverdale, Isa. lxi. 1. Y^t I might … open the preson to them that are bounde.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 574. Surprize him first, and with hard Fetters bind.

1742.  Pope, Dunciad, IV. 32. Too mad for mere material chains to bind.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 318. My father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch.

  b.  fig. Said of sickness, sin, passion, affection, intellectual embarrassment, a magic spell, etc.

[c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke xiii. 16. Þas abrahames dohtor þe satanas ʓeband nu eahtatyne ʓear.]

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 63. Þenne bie we bunden of wiðerfulnesse.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 408. Luue bint so ure Louerd.

1382.  Wyclif, Luke xiii. 16.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, XXIII. 9542. Achilles … lay in his loge all with loue boundon.

c. 1450.  York Bid. Prayer, in Layfolks Mass Bk., 70. We sall pray … for all þaes þat er bun in dette or in dedely syn.

1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ. (1849), 174. The magistrate (say they) … hath no power to bind the conscience.

1853.  Lytton, My Novel, VIII. ii. The magician will release the fair spirit he has bound to his will.

  ¶ See also Branch IV.

  II.  To tie about, bandage, gird, encircle.

  3.  To tie (a knot obs.); hence fig. to conclude (a story obs., a bargain or agreement), to make (any contract) fast or sure. † To bind an end (Naut.): to finish up (obs.).

a. 1300.  Sarmun, 53, in E. E. P. (1862), 6. Þe last word bint þe tale.

c. 1320.  Sir Tristr., I. v. A forward fast thai bond.

c. 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, X. 825. That cunnand band thai sekirly.

1567.  Declar. Lordis Quarrel (Dalzell), II. 274. Syne with his Burrio band ane new mariage.

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., V. i. 16. The sooner to effect, And surer binde this knot of amitie.

a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Hist. Scot. (1655), 7. None of the Subjects should bind up a league together.

1677.  Act Frauds, xvii. Give something in earnest to bind the bargain.

1883.  T. Hardy, in Longm. Mag., July, 259. A shilling is passed to bind the bargain.

  4.  ‘To hinder the natural flux of the bowels, to make costive.’ J. Cf. to confine.

[c. 1050.  Ags. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, Voc., 342. Astringentes, ʓebindende.]

1597.  Gerard, Herbal, I. xxix. § 2. 40. It heateth moderately and bindeth.

1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 19. Rubarb hath manifestly in it … parts that bind the body.

1683.  Salmon, Lond. Disp., I. i. (1702), 11/1. Hyacinthi … bind the Belly.

1815.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 5), IV. 197/1. The fruit [Medler-tree] … is somewhat austere, and binds the bowels.

  5.  To bandage (the body, etc., with something); to put a bandage on (any part of the body); to ‘swaddle’ a child, to ‘wind’ a corpse.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., John xi. 44. Hys nebb was mid swat-line ʓebunden.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 121. Summe þer weren þet his eȝan bundan.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 11236. Wit suilk [clathes] sco suedeld him and band.

1382.  Wyclif, John xix. 40. Thei token the body of Jhesu, and bounden it in lynnen clothis.

1694.  Salmon, Iatrica, I. v. 284/1. To bind her Belly with a large swathing-band.

1837.  Penny Mag., No. 335. A schöppe … bound his eyes and led him to where the court was sitting.

1838.  S. Cooper, Surg. Dict., 691. This graduated compress is then to be bound on the part with a roller.

  6.  ‘To cover a wound with dressings and bandages.’ J. Usually with up.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 79. An helendis Mon … bond his wunden.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XVII. 70. [The Samaritan] embawmed hym and bonde his hed.

1382.  Wyclif, Luke x. 34. He comynge nyȝ bond to gidere his woundis.

1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, li. 145. He made his thye to be dressed and bounden vp.

1568.  Bible (Bishops’), Hosea vi. 1. Hee hath wounded vs, and hee will binde vs vp.

1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 177. Giue me another Horse, bind vp my Wounds.

1786.  T. Jefferson, Corr. (1830), 50. Who can so softly bind up the wound?

1816.  Crabbe, Eng. Synon., 161/2. A wounded leg is bound but not tied; a string is tied but not bound.

  7.  To fasten round, to gird, encircle, wreathe (the head, etc., with something; something about, round the head, etc.).

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Lev. viii. And band his heafod mid claþe.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Reeves T., 33. His typet y-bounde aboute his heed.

1552.  Huloet, Bynde vp, as a woman doth her heade.

1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., IV. iv. 333. Bound with Triumphant Garlands will I come. Ibid. (1607), Cor., I. iii. 16. His browes bound with Oake.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., VIII. 89. Bind those Altars round With Fillets.

1704.  Pope, Windsor For., 178. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.

1870.  Tennyson, Holy Grail, 159. I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt.

  8.  To secure with a border or edging of some strengthening material, as a box or jewel with metal, a garment with braid, etc.; also fig.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 349. Hem failen charite to bynde her schelde in ordre.

1464.  Inv. Dk. Suffolk, in Dom. Archit., III. 113. A gret standard of the chapell bounde with ierne.

1535.  Coverdale, Ecclus. xlv. 11. A worke … set with costly precious stones, all bounde with golde.

1667.  Milton, P. L., XI. 881. A flowrie verge to binde The fluid skirts of that same watrie Cloud.

1682.  Dryden, Mac Fl., 64. Close to the walls which fair Augusta bind.

1808.  R. Porter, Trav. Sk. Russ. & Swed., ii. (1813), I. 17. A sort of low beef-eater hat bound with yellow.

Mod.  Silk binding to bind coats and vests.

  III.  To tie together, to unite.

  9.  To tie (a number of things) so as to hold them together, or to form them into a single mass; esp. to tie up (sheaves of corn).

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xiii. 30. Gadriað ærest þonne coccel, and bindað sceafmælum.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 254. Heo schulen beon ibunden togederes.

1382.  Wyclif, Matt. xiii. 30. Gedre ȝee to gedre dernels, and byndeth hem to gidre in knytchis [1611 binde them in bundels] for to be brent.

1580.  Baret, Alv., B 686. To binde with osiers or twigs, as hoopers do.

1611.  Bible, Ps. cxxix. 7. Hee that bindeth sheaues.

1632.  Milton, Allegro, 87. Her bow’r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves.

1750.  Franklin, Wks. (1840), 238. Bind the pieces of glass together from end to end with strong silk thread.

a. 1832.  Crabbe, Posth. Tales, Wks. 1834, VIII. 162. What time the reaper binds the burden’d sheaf.

1861.  O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., xxviii. Old Sophy … bound up her long hair for her sleep.

  absol.  1770.  A. Young, Tour N. Eng., I. 189. A man follows every two scythes to bind.

  b.  fig.

1568.  Bible (Bishops’), 1 Sam. xxv. 29. The soule of my lorde shal be bounde in the bundel of the liuing.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., IV. 20. The jarring Nations he in peace shall bind.

1785.  T. Jefferson, Corr. (1830), 417. Friendships which had bound their ancestors together.

c. 1854.  Stanley, Sinai & Pal., ii. (1858), 116. The situation of Palestine is remarkably bound up with its future destinies.

  10.  To cement (particles) together, or cause them to cohere in a firm mass.

a. 1000.  Exon., 78 a (Bosw.). Hrusan [MS. hruse] bindeþ wintres wóma.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 355. Þis elementz þat al thinges bindes Four er þai.

c. 1440.  Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 435. Qwhen the sawse is bounden to the felettes, then take hom out of the pot.

c. 1760.  Smollett, Blue-ey’d Ann, 3. Plays & Poems 1777, 257.

1787.  Winter, Syst. Husb., 218. Stiff and loamy soils, which become hardened and bound.

1871.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., II. xvi. 10. That rain and frost of heaven; and the earth which they loose and bind.

Mod.  To bind the loose sand.

  b.  intr. (for refl.) To stick together, cohere in a mass.

1674.  Grew, Luctation, II. § 15. Their Alkaly binds in with some preternatural Acid in the Stomach.

1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 240. Soiling it [chalk land] with the best mould … to keep it from binding.

1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 37. The Mettal running close to the Spindle will bind on that place.

1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 179, ¶ 8. A spacious Walk of the finest Gravel, made to bind and unite so firmly.

1838.  N. Paterson, Manse Gard., III. 210. The coarse [gravel], it is true does not bind.

  c.  intr. Hawking. To grapple or close with.

1575.  Turberv., Falconry, 255. As diuers times it happeneth to the falcon … when they binde togither in the ayre.

1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 76. Nothing flieth in the aire that they will not bind with.

1826.  Sebright, in ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. IV. i. § 10. When one of the hawks seizes his prey, the other soon binds to him.

  11.  trans. To fasten together the sheets of (a book), and put it into a stiff cover. Technically ‘binding’ is covering with leather, vellum, or other durable material; though in ordinary language we say ‘bound in cloth.’ A book is half-bound when it has a leather back, and the sides covered with cloth or paper.

a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 3317. The sexte had a sawtere semliche bowndene.

1509.  Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1874), I. 20. I haue them [my books] in great reuerence … Full goodly bounde in pleasaunt couerture.

1588.  Marprel. Epist. (Arb.), 34. That no Byble should be bounde without the Apocripha.

1637.  Decree Star-Chamb., § 7, in Milton’s Areop. (Arb.), 13. No person … shall bind, stitch, or put to sale, any such booke.

1727.  Swift, Further Acc. E. Curll, Wks. 1755, III. I. 156. He always binds in sheep.

1851.  Longf., Gold. Leg., II. 113. A huge tome, bound In brass and wild-boar’s hide.

  b.  To bind up: i.e., together into one volume.

1650.  R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low C. Warres, IV. 95. It is printed, and bound up with her life.

1682.  Grew, Anat. Plants, Ep. Ded. An Animal is … several Plants bound up into one Volume.

1875.  E. White, Life in Christ, II. xvi. (1878), 183. The fragment on Hades, formerly bound up with the works of Josephus.

  12.  Hedging. To interlace stakes with edder.

1523.  Fitzherb., Husb. (1534), 54. Set thy stakes within ii. foote and a halfe together, excepte thou haue very good edderynge, and longe, to bynde with. Ibid. The better the stake wil be dryuen, whan he is wel bounden.

  13.  transf. To fasten together or connect in various ways, as to harness a horse or chariot (obs.), to fasten parts of dress (poetic), to connect distant places (rhet.); and in various fig. uses.

1535.  Coverdale, Ecclus. vii. 8. Bynde not two synnes together. Ibid., Ex. xiv. 6. He bounde his charetts fast [Wyclif, ioynede the chare].

1611.  Bible, Micah i. 13. Bind the chariot to the swift beast.

1720.  Gay, Ep. T. Snow. A sharpen’d skewer cross his bare shoulders bound A tattered rug.

1836.  O. W. Holmes, Poems, My Aunt. She strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone.

1855.  Motley, Dutch Rep. (1884), I. 3. To bind by watery highways with the furthest ends of the World, a country disinherited by nature of its rights.

1860.  Keble, Hymn, ‘The voice that.’ Thou didst bind two natures In Thine eternal bands.

  IV.  To restrain or unite by non-material bonds. (Closely connected with the fig. uses of 1, 2, from which these senses spring.)

  14.  To tie, restrain, confine, restrict by a nonmaterial bond or force of any kind.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 23748. We ar bunden vnder þair au.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron., 35. Þe Walsch men he band With homage and feaute.

1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. ii. 90. When poysoned houres had bound me vp From mine owne knowledge.

1647.  Campion, Art Descant., II. 27. No Tune … can have any grace or sweetness unless it be bounden within a proper Key.

1713.  Derham, Phys. Theol., VIII. ii. The great Contriver of Nature is not bound up to one Way only.

1838.  Macaulay, in Trevelyan, Life (1876), II. vii. 14. I have no official business to bind me.

  15.  To tie (a person, oneself) up in respect to action; to oblige by a covenant, oath, promise or vow. Const. to, from, an action, to do something.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 6. Hwoa se … bihat hit God alse heste to donne, heo bint hire þerto.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Compl. Mars, 47. He bynt him to perpetuall obeisaunce.

c. 1440.  York Myst., xxxii. 217. I will me bynde to be your man.

1535.  Coverdale, Numb. xxx. 2. Yf eny man … sweare an ooth, so that he binde his soule.

1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., 71. A Covenant, if lawfull, binds in the sight of God, without the Oath.

1654.  Earl Orrery, Parthenissa (1676), 640. What I bind my self from now, I will abjure for ever for your sake.

1832.  Chalmers, Pol. Econ., v. A landed proprietor may bind himself to a future payment, in a written deed.

  † b.  intr. (for refl.) To agree, pledge oneself.

c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, VI. 927. Than bund thai thus; thar suld be no debait.

c. 1817.  Hogg, Tales & Sk., II. 215. He would voluntarily bind for it.

  16.  trans. To oblige or constrain with legal authority.

1463.  Paston Lett., 473, II. 133. Your certificat … shall bynd any of the parties to sey the contrary.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 161. For the lawe of the chirche … byndeth vs to synge or saye our seruyce diligently.

1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 48. What law can bynd mee, to be trew to so wycked a countrey?

1775.  Johnson, Tax. no Tyr., 45. Whether the English laws could bind Ireland.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 375. Every parish was bound to repair the highways which passed through it.

  17.  To subject to a specific legal obligation.

  a.  To make (a person or estate) liable for the payment of a debt, or fulfilment of an obligation. Usually passive: To be made or become surety.

1462.  Mann. & Househ. Exp., 149. My mastyre and Thomas Howe are bowndyne … to my lord of Esex, lx. li.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., I. iii. 5. For the which, as I told you, Anthonio shall be bound.

1650.  T. B[ayley], Worcester’s Apoph., 69. Offering to bind her estate for the repayment.

1727.  Swift, Wonder of W., Wks. 1755, II. II. 54. He has hardly one acquaintance, for whom he hath not been bound.

1772.  Mackenzie, Man of World, II. ix. (1823), 476. I will become bound to make up all your losses.

  b.  To lay under obligation to answer or prosecute a charge (usually to bind over to appear, etc.), or gen. to perform a stated act or pursue a line of conduct.

1549.  Bk. Com. Prayer, Matrim., Yf any man … will be bound, and sureties with him to the parties.

1592.  Greene, Art Conny-catch., II. 12. They were apprehended, and bound ouer to the Sessions at Westminster.

1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., IV. xii. 299. He is not to be bound to the peace.

c. 1702.  J. P., New Guide Constables, 106. Such Parents may be bound over … to answer their sad default.

1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xiii. 109. The Mayor … declared he would … bind them over to keep the peace.

  c.  To bind one (over) to his good behavior. lit. and fig.

1642.  Rogers, Naaman, 40. Till the Lord binde the soule to her good behaviour.

1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 79. It pretended to bind books to their good behaviour.

1760.  Life & Adv. of Cat, 108. Sufficient … to bind him down to his good behaviour.

1829.  Southey, Sir T. More, I. 142. The members would virtually be bound to their good behaviour.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 559. He thought it unjust … to bind him over to his good behaviour.

  d.  colloq. I dare, or will be bound: I undertake the responsibility of the statement, I feel certain.

1557.  North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall Pr. (1582), 399 b. I dare be bound … he shal not want infinit troubles.

1589.  Theses Martinianæ, Introd. Ile bee bounde hee shall not loose his labour.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., IV. iii. 18. I dare be bound hee’s true.

1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., V. ii. I’ll be bound that no soul here can budge a foot to follow you.

1850.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxviii. You’ve been stealing something, I’ll be bound.

  18.  To be bound: to be under obligation, to have it as a duty, moral or legal, to do something.

c. 1360.  Deo Gratias, in E. E. P. (1862), 125. To þonke and blesse hym we be bounde.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 291. Thou art ybounden … To helpen me.

1484.  Caxton, Chyualry, 15. So moche arte thow more bonde and bounden to be good.

1595.  Shaks., John, II. i. 522. That she is bound in honor still to do.

1607–12.  Bacon, Counsel, Ess. (Arb.), 318. Princes are not bound to communicate all matters.

1771.  Junius Lett., liv. 283. I am not bound to assign the … motives of his … hatred.

1852.  M’Culloch, Taxation, II. i. 158. Government … is bound to treat all its subjects alike.

  19.  To engage or unite in matrimony.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron., 40. He wild him bynd to som berde in boure.

1382.  Wyclif, 1 Cor. vii. 27. Thou art boundyn to a wyf.

1580.  Baret, Alv., B 1027. Moreouer I am bounde to my wife.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., V. iv. 59. As mariage binds and blood breakes.

1807.  Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. 338. To bind in law, the couple bound by love.

  20.  To indenture (any one) to a master, or to a trade, as an apprentice or learner; to apprentice. Sometimes with out or over.

c. 1500.  in Halliwell, Nugæ Poeticæ, 20. The preste that bounde me prentys.

1586.  in Wadley’s Bristol Wills (1886), 251. Twenty shillings to John Stinchcome yf he be bownde.

1602.  Life T. Cromwell, I. ii. 80. Had I bound him to some honest trade.

a. 1672.  Wood, Life (1848), 89, note. Imploying the yearly profits … in binding forth apprentices into other parishes.

1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 196, ¶ 3. [I] have bound him to a Shoemaker.

1845.  Stephen, Laws Eng., II. 230. Apprentices are usually bound out by their friends; though their own consent is essential.

1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, ii. Rebecca … was bound over as an articled-pupil.

  21.  To attach to (a person) by ties of duty, gratitude, affection, etc.

1530.  Palsgr., 362. I am bownden to no man.

1595.  Shaks., John, III. iii. 29. I am much bounden to your Maiesty.

1634.  W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp., Ded. Note. The good assurance of your native worth … hath so bound my thankfull acknowledgement.

1682.  Pepys’ Diary, VI. 147. I am infinitely bound to my friends … for their thoughts of me.

1765.  Burke, Corr. (1844), I. 71. The way in which you take up my affairs binds me to you in a manner I cannot express.

1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, II. 181. Simon Glover, to whom the Fair City is so much bounden.