Custody
['kʌstədɪ] or ['kʌstədi]
Definition
(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Keeping, care, watch guardianship, protection, safekeeping.
Checker: Melanie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Keeping, guardianship, conservation, care
ANT:Neglect, betrayal, exposure, abandoning,[See {[U]?}], desertion, liberation,jeopardy, discharge
Checker: Salvatore
Definition
n. a watching or guarding: care: security: imprisonment.—adj. Custō′dial.—ns. Custō′dian Cus′tode Custō′dier Cus′tos one who has care esp. of some public building.
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Examples
- You must consider yourself in custody, George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Do you propose to take me into custody? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had to choose between taking Rosanna in custody on suspicion, or leaving her, for the time being, with her little game in her own hands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And another thousand to the man who will name the person or persons who keep him in custody? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The muscular hand broke from my custody; my arm was seized, my shoulder--neck--waist--I was entwined and gathered to him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When I took him into custody up in Holborn, he said you knew him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I grieve to tell thee, Sir Knight, answered the Jewess, that he is in custody by the order of Cedric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And what wert thou now doing at Ashby with such a charge in thy custody? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were brought into these foreign towns in the custody of couriers and local followers, just as the debtors had been brought into the prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Until he comes, I must detain you all under my personal custody. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That when Miss Murdstone took her into custody and led her away, she smiled and gave me her delicious hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The soldiers looked stupidly at each other and at me, and shook their heads and took me into custody. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I see him now, going away in custody, despised by the congregation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I shall direct that Sarkoja cease to annoy the girl, and I myself will take the custody of the key. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typist: Preston