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custody|ˈkʌstədɪ|
Also 5–6 -dye, 5–7 -die, 7 costodie.
[ad. L. custōdia guarding, keeping, f. custos, custōd-em guardian, keeper: see -y.]
1. Safe keeping, protection, defence; charge, care, guardianship. Const. of the thing guarded, or of the person guarding it.
1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 3 There to rest as your Tresour in the Custodie of the seid Chief Officer. 1513More in Grafton Chron. II. 772 Both..for a while to be in the custody of their mother. 1555Eden Decades 54 Leauynge the custodye of the fortresse with a certeyne noble gentel⁓man. a1626Bacon (J.), There was prepared a fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. 1652Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) I. 320 When he shall have the custody of the Great Seal. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4048/4 She [a mare] was seen..in custody of a Man. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. lxiv. 609 The custody of the passes was neglected. 1891Law Times XC. 462/1 Where the court refuses a parent the custody of his child.
2. The keeping of the officers of justice (for some presumed offence against the law); confinement, imprisonment, durance.
[1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 156 Iaylor, take him to thy custodie.] 1611Coryat Crudities 4 He shall be apprehended by some Souldiers..and committed to safe custody til he hath paid some fee for his ransome. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 129 He had..committed him to hard and close Custody, more out of suspition, than for any Crimes. 1727Swift What passed in London, That so..honest a man should be ordered into custody. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xv. 120 The constables..appeared. T. R. was taken into custody. 1888Morley Burke 61 The messenger of the serjeant-at-arms attempted to take one of them into custody in his own shop in the city.
†3. The office of a keeper; guardianship. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) Num. viii. 26 Thus shalt thou dispose to the Levites in their custodies. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. 30 Who gaue away..such Honours, Custodies, and Dignities, as were vacant. 1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 286 Custodies of Woods, Parks, Forrests, Chases.
†4. A case for keeping a thing in. Obs. rare.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 240/3 His bookes whiche had [not] a custodye [nullum habentes conservatorium] fyl in the water.
5. attrib.
a1625Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 122 Custody Lands, anciently termed the Crown Lands, answered in the Pipe. |