A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1549-1586
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Boundage, Bundage, n. [Variant of Bondage, also in e.m.E.]
1. Tenant service.1549 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 434.
Payand … ten penneis for bundage, arrage or carrage 1549 Ib. 445.
Payand … twenty penneis for boundage
2. Bondage, servitude.1558-66 Knox I. 441.
The boundage of the hole commounwealth 1558-66 Ib. II. 428.
Deliver hir from the boundage and thraldom of Sathan a1578 Pitsc. II. 103/28.
As they might saiff thair contrie fre skaitht and boundage a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxxvii. 77.
Gif that it be in boundage brocht be thé a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xlvii. 9.
The boundage of the hairt
