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fettered, ppl. a.|ˈfɛtəd|
[f. fetter v. + -ed1.]
1. Bound with fetters or chains.
a1325Prose Psalter ci[i]. 21 He herd þe waie-mentynges of þe fettered. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. ii. B j b, The fettred flie. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 107 May I be fetter'd slave to coward Chaunce. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3214/4 Two black Geldings, the one..side fettered. 1814Byron Corsair iii. ix, He, fast as fetter'd limbs allow, pursued. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am vi, His fettered wrists hanging in front of him.
b. fig. Hampered by disadvantageous conditions.
1856Olmsted Slave States 140 It is the old, fettered, barbarian labor-system.
2. (See quot.)
1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Fettered, in Biol., applied to the limbs of animals when, by their retention within the integuments, or by their backward stretched position, they are unfit for walking.
Hence ˈfetteredness, the state of being fettered.
1656W. Montagu Accompl. Wom. 112 Gracefulness is..averse to this slavery and fetterednesse. |