2. Verb. (third-person singular of bind) ¹
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Definition of Binds
1. bind [v] - See also: bind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Binds
Literary usage of Binds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"THAT it binds not to action," I affirm upon the same ground, ... It binds from
action ; for whatsoever is done with a doubting conscience (that is, ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"General education and a better knowledge of the nexus that binds all mankind into
a union is principally to be accredited with this happy advance! ..."
3. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1863)
"... successors as on thr prince himself who signed it, since it binds the state
itself. and the successors can never have, in this respect, any other ji 36. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... and quotes from Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar the lines—. ¿6 binds your fillets
fasts, And gird in your waste, For more fineness, ... binds ..."
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