bounden

adj

1. (dated)Now chiefly in "bounden duty": made obligatory; binding.

   “And although we be vnworthy (through our manyfolde ſynnes) to offre vnto thee any Sacryfice: Yet we beſeche thee to accepte thys our bounden duetie and ſeruice: and commande theſe our prayers and ſupplicacions, by the Miniſtery of thy holy Angels, to be brought vp into thy holy Tabernacle before the ſyght of thy dyuine maieſtie: […]”

   “Your moſt bounden and devoted friend and ſervant of all men living, Fr. Bacon, C.S.”

   “That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for putting me in mind o' my bounden duty.”

   “Therefore, O Lord, we beseech Thee graciously to accept this oblation of our bounden service, from us and from thy whole family.”

   “She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.”

2. (obsolete)Bound.

   “...and that the world should owe thanke therof to you, to whom my husband the authour of it was for good receyued of you, most dutiefully bounden.”

verb

1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past, rare, transitive)past participle of bind.
2. (archaic, intransitive, rare, specifically, transitive)past participle of bind.

   “I am much bounden to your Maieſty.”

   “In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him.”

   “He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't be bounden to him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain't bounden to him?”