Bond″age (–ā̍j), n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.] 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.
Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be... brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
South.
3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn. — Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.