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beholden, ppl. a.|bɪˈhəʊld(ə)n|
Also 4 bihalden, biholde, 5–6 behold(e, 5 byholden, -halden, behoulden, 9 (dial.) behauden, behadden, behodden.
[Originally pa. pple. of behold v.; but senses 1 and 2 are not actually found in other parts of the vb., though ‘hold or retain under obligation’ was a natural enough sense of be-hold. See also beholding ppl. a.]
1. Attached, or obliged (to a person); under personal obligation for favours or services.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1547, I am hyȝly bihalden, & euer⁓more wylle Be seruaunt to your-seluen. Ibid. 1841, I am derely to yow biholde. 1414Brampton Penit. Ps. li. 20 Manye, that were to me beholde. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. iii. x. 188 The more beholden is the lorde unto hym. 1592tr. Junius on Rev. xiii. 1 The beast is beholden for all unto the Dragon. 1656Bramhall Replic. vii. 283, I am much beholden to him for easing me of the labour of replying. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxvii. 41 Besides I don't love to be beholden. 1816Scott Old Mort. 49 ‘And wad keep ye in bread without being behadden to ony ane.’ 1873F. Hall Mod. English 101 How deeply we are beholden to the happy daring of translators, for the amplitude and variety of our diction.
†2. Under moral obligation, in duty bound (to do something). Obs.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 108 Eueriche fader and moder is be holde to praie for her children. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1814 To worchep Iesu þey ar be-hold. 1502Ord. Crysten Men i. vii. (1506) 82 He is bounde and beholde for to byleue that who so trespasseth..is in deedlye synne.
†3. Regarded, considered. Obs.
a1520Myrr. Our Ladye 310 The thynge byholden ys to say, the beholdynge of the causes. |