bounden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈbaʊndən/
Forms: form: more bounden
form: most bounden
Etymology: From bound + -en, the archaic past participle of bind.
Senses: examples: text: And although we be vnworthy (through our manyfolde ſynnes) to offre vnto thee any Sacryfice: Yet we beſeche thee to accepte thys our bounden duetie and ſeruice: and commande theſe our prayers and ſupplicacions, by the Miniſtery of thy holy Angels, to be brought vp into thy holy Tabernacle before the ſyght of thy dyuine maieſtie: […]
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Supper of the Lorde, and the Holy Communion, Commonly Called the Masse”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio cxxix, recto:
text: Your moſt bounden and devoted friend and ſervant of all men living, Fr. Bacon, C.S.
ref: 1616 March 7, Francis Bacon, “XCIX. This Letter was Written to the Earl of Buckingham, on the Same Day Sir Francis Bacon was Declared Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Gosling […] and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Osborne […], published 1730, →OCLC, page 652:
text: That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for putting me in mind o' my bounden duty.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XIX, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 282:
text: Therefore, O Lord, we beseech Thee graciously to accept this oblation of our bounden service, from us and from thy whole family.
ref: 1839, “The Antiquity of the Existing Liturgies”, in Tracts for the Times, volume II, number 63, London: Printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington, […]; Oxford: J. H. Parker, →OCLC, page 9:
text: She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Miss Crawley at Nurse”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 165:
text: Further, the country is likely to require the meat and fat, during the coming food crisis, and it is for every farmer—everyone, in fact, who has the means of keeping pigs—to do so. There is no farm in the country where a sow, and a few other pigs too, cannot be kept profitably. To-day it is the bounden duty of every farmer to do so.
ref: 1918 February 25, “Pigs, Potatoes, and Peace”, in Agricultural Gazette, London: [Alexander K. Bruce?], →OCLC, page 163, column 2:
glosses: Now chiefly in "bounden duty": made obligatory; binding.
examples: text: ...and that the world should owe thanke therof to you, to whom my husband the authour of it was for good receyued of you, most dutiefully bounden.
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Bound.
Derived terms: boundenly