A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
The practice of being physically restrained, as with cords or handcuffs, as a means of attaining sexual gratification.
Villeinage.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Middle English bonde, serf, from Old English bōnda, husbandman, from Old Norse bōndi, present participle of būa, to live; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]
1303, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-L. bondagium, from M.E. bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from O.E. bonda "householder," from O.N. bondi, from boandi "free-born farmer," lit. prp. of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit." Meaning in Eng. changed by infl. of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is first recorded 1966.
the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"
2.
the state of being under the control of another person
3.
sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
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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