Word Meanings - BONDSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.

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• MERCY
  mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. 1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict
• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• CARNALLITE
  A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
• CARNAL-MINDED
  Worldly-minded.
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• CARNAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• GRAMERCY
  A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks. Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight. Spenser.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• UNSURETY
  Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. Sir T. More.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.