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noun

Custody n.

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. "A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas."

Judicial or penal safe-keeping. "Jailer, take him to thy custody."

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?"

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Etymology of 'Custody'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... than the common one may be secured to the famous passage in St. Matthew—'And thou shalt call His name Jesus.' This injunction wears the most impressive character belonging to heavenly adjuration, when it is thus confided to the care and custody of a special angel, and in the very hour of inauguration, and amongst the very birth-throes of Christianity. For in two separate modes the attention is secretly pointed and solicited to the grand serpentine artifice, which met and confronted the almost insurmountable difficulty besetting ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... gone, e're Eumolpus bounc'd in upon us, for the broken door cou'd stop nobody, and, in a great heat, cry'd out, "I'll earn the reward: I'll make after the Cryer, and let him know how soon Gito may be in his custody." ...

— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... value which Goetze set upon the manuscript, it remained unnoticed and unmentioned far into our century. Even Johann Christoph Adelung, who as head librarian had it in his custody and who died in 1806, does not mention it in his Mithridates, of which that part which treats of American languages (III, 3) was published only in 1816, after Adelung's death, by J. S. Vater. This would have ...

— Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices • Cyrus Thomas

... small forces possessed by her Ladyship, Countess von Falkenstein. I have to acquaint you with the fact that your servant and messenger has been captured. Your castle of Schonburg is besieged, and Conrad, unaware, rode straight into custody. This coming to the ears of my lady the Countess, she directed me to intercept you if possible, so that you might not share the fate of your servant, and offer to you the hospitality of Gudenfels Castle until such ...

— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr

... for he avowed at once his true character. The British general signed an order to his provost-marshal directing him to receive into his custody the prisoner convicted as a spy, and to see him hanged by the neck "to-morrow morning ...

— Revolutionary Heroes, And Other Historical Papers • James Parton

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