fetteredadj.
/ˈfɛtəd/, U.S. /ˈfɛdərd/ 1.
a. Bound with fetters or chains.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled
yfeteredOE
fettereda1325
bounda1382
ygyveda1387
shackledc1440
bounded1711
trammelled1813
spancelled1835
a1325 Prose Psalter ci[i]. 21 He herd þe waie-mentynges of þe fettered.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie ii. B j b The fettred flie.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F May I be fetter'd slaue to coward Chaunce.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3214/4 Two black Geldings, the one..side fettered.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. ix. 80 He, fast as fettered limbs allow, pursued.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am vi His fettered wrists hanging in front of him.
b. figurative. Hampered by disadvantageous conditions.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > entangling or confining > entangled or confined
briered1702
trammelled1813
fettered1856
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 140 It is the old, fettered, barbarian labor-system.
2. (See quot. 1884.)
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1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 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.
Derivatives
ˈfetteredness n. the state of being fettered.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > state of
bindingc1380
bondage1609
fetteredness1656
hamperedness1831
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > state of
bindingc1380
bondage1609
fetteredness1656
hamperedness1831
1656 W. Montagu tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman 112 Gracefulness is..averse to this slavery and fetterednesse.
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