passive ? To be bound in an obligation. Obsolete.

to be bound: to be under obligation, to have it as a duty, moral or legal, to do something.

to be holden: to be obliged, under obligation to (any one), to be beholden, adj. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. to be obliged: to be morally or legally bound; (more generally) to be under a necessity, to be behoved. Frequently with to (or †till) or…

transitive (in passive). To be indebted or grateful to a person or (occasionally) a thing. Chiefly formal in later use.

transitive. To bind (a person) morally; to put (a person) under moral obligation; to constrain, compel, oblige. Usually in passive with infinitive…