ybound

1. obsoleteparticiplepastpast participle of bind

   She sayd and sayd that Bracelettes were ybound, To hold him fast (but not to charme his thought)

   1575, George Gascoigne, Posies of Gascoigne

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   His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was MISERY ybound.

   1559, Thomas Sackville, The Mirror for Magistrates

   But Lord they sayen they ben ybound to thy seruice, and seruen thee both night and day in singing their praiers, both for themselfe and for the other men, that done them good both quicke and dead, and some of them gone about to teach thy people when they hauen leisure.

   1563 (1851), John Foxe, John Cumming, Fox's Book of martyrs: the acts and monuments of the church

   In mids of which, depainted there, we found Deadly Debate, all full of snaky hair, That with a bloody fillet was ybound, Out breathing nought but discord every where:

   1859, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Reginald West, The Works, page 116

   But him Idomeneus foresaw with quick preventing glance, And sheltered by his huge round shield eschewed the fatal lance, The shield, with hides of oxen and strong copper plates ybound, And with two handles fitted well to grasp its ample round.

   1866, John Stuart Blackie, The Iliad in English verse, page 23

comparative more ybound · superlative most ybound

1. obsoleteBound.

   With preface meet, and notes profound, Imprinted fair, and well ybound.'

   1879, John Gay, The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Memoir - Volume 2, page 37

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   Took he there, this gentle Knight, With men of armès strong, And led him home to Nottingham ward Ybound both hand and foot.

   1510, W. de Worde, Robin Hood

   I found / Where him that witch had thralled to her will, / In chaines of lust and lewd desires ybound […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC