servitude
ser.vi.tude \'s*r-v*-.t(y)u:d\ n [ME, fr. MF, fr. L servitudo slavery, fr.
servus slave] 1: the state of subjection to another that constitutes or
resembles slavery or serfdom 2: a right by which something (as a piece of
land) owned by one person is s ubject to a specified use or enjoyment by
anotherg subject to a master. SERVITUDE is chiefly rhetorical and imprecise
in use; it implies in general lack of liberty to do as one pleases,
specifically lack of freedom to determine one's course of action and
conditions of living; SLAVERY implies subjection to a master who owns one's
person and may treat one as property; BONDAGE implies a state of being
bound in law or by physical restraint to a state of complete subjection to
the will of another SYN syn SERVITUDE, SLAVERY, BONDAGE mean the state of
bein