transitive. To bind (a person) by oath, promise, contract, etc.; to put under an obligation, to engage, commit. Frequently with to or infinitive. Obs…

To shut up to a course of action, etc.; to bind, oblige. Still in legal use.

To bind; to put under obligation; to restrain.

transitive. To bind morally or legally; to put under obligation or necessity; to oblige. Obsolete.

transitive. To put under obligation; to bind by an obligation.

transitive. To bind (a person) morally; to put (a person) under moral obligation; to constrain, compel, oblige. Usually in passive with infinitive…

To subject to a specific legal obligation. To lay under obligation to answer or prosecute a charge (usually to bind over to appear, etc.), or gen.…

transitive. To bind by obligation, render indebted.

To bind by moral or legal obligation.

To bind, oblige; usually in passive to be bound or obliged (to do something). Now only dialect.

transitive. In wider sense: To bind by moral or legal obligation. Const. to with n. or infinitive.

to put (a person) on his or her honour (and variants): to oblige or expect (a person) to act honourably, or according to his or her word of honour.

figurative. transitive. To hold (a person) to a promise, course of action, etc.; to constrain. Chiefly with down to.