custody
custody is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak.
- 2.State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- agency
- agent
- agentship
- and
- appointment
- assignment
- attorney
- authority
- back
- bird
- bond
- brevet
- captive
- capture
- charge
- charter
- clench
- clerkship
- clinch
- close
- clutch
- commission
- consignee
- consignment
- coronation
- delegate
- delegation
- deputation
- deputy
- designation
- detain
- detention
- diploma
- doing
- durance
- embassy
- entail
- enthronement
- errand
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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