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ˈtheowdom, ˈthewdom Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 4 þedome, 5 theudome, 7, 9 theodom.
[OE. þéowdom, f. þéow, theow n. + -dom.]
The condition of a ‘theow’ or slave; slavery, bondage, thraldom. (In OE. also in sense ‘service’, without connotation of servility.)
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. x. §6 Þæt men hie mehten aliesan mid feo of þeowdome. a950Rituale Dunelm. (Surtees) 6 In nedhernisse vel in ðeadome ic beᵹo. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 524 Eᵹe is twyfeald, and ðeowdom is twyfeald. c1122O.E. Chron. an. 675 (Laud MS.), Hi hit heafden ᵹefreod..of ealle þewdom. Ibid. an. 963, Hi hit freodon..wið ealle weoruld þeudom. c1175Lamb. Hom. 99 Men weren alesde from deofles ðeowdome. c1200Ormin 3611, I þeowwdom unnderr laferrd. Ibid. 14779 Ut off þewwdomess bandess. c1205Lay. 454 Dardanisc kun..woneð in þisse londe..inne þeowe-dome [c 1275 þeudome]. a1225Ancr. R. 32 Summe ine prisune, summe ine alse muchele ðeudome alse oxe is oþer asse. c1320Cast. Love 247 Whon he him serwede in þewdome [v.rr. thewdome, þedome]. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 138 Nether al to be vndone, ne fully I-broght yn-to theudome. [1658Phillips, Theodom (Sax.), servitude. 1833Galt in Fraser's Mag. VIII. 497 Too fond of literature to relish the distasteful theodom of a tutor.] |