With complement: To keep in a specified place, state, condition, or relation; to oblige to adhere to (a promise or the like: cf. 10).

transitive. To bind, oblige, restrain, constrain to (also from) some course of action, etc.; to limit, confine, restrict. to be tied to (or for) time…

To require by force or with authority the performance of (duty, labour, etc.), the concession of (anything desired); to insist upon. Const. from, of…

To compel by physical or moral force (the performance of an action, conformity to a rule, etc.); to impose (a course of conduct) on a person.

To bind to, restrain from (an action). Obsolete.

To bind stringently. Obsolete.

figurative. To confine stringently (to some thing or action): cf. sense 5, and down, adv. 17.

intransitive. To commit oneself to an engagement. Obsolete. rare.