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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

embondage en · VERB

Etymology

From em- + bondage.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To bring into bondage; to enslave.
    • So that the liberty of God's people stands in the truth, and their communion in it, and in the perfect spiritual law of Christ Jesus, which delivers and preserves them from every evil thing that doth or would embondage. 1681, William Penn, A Brief Examination of Spiritual Liberty:

Forms

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embondaged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
embondaged Tense=Past lexicographic
embondages Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
embondaging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic