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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Custody" Quotes from Famous Books

... some trouble. I asked her to account for the presence of the article. She could give me no answer, except to deny the theft; so I took her into custody; then her husband came for me, so I was obliged to take him, too, for assault. He was very violent on the way to the station—very violent—threatened you and your son, and altogether he was a handful, I ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow to the three of us, and walked quietly off in the custody ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... contrivances for hiding away papers or valued articles; and in old secretaires and writing tables we find a great many ingenious designs which remind us of the days when there were but few banks, and people kept money and deeds in their own custody. ...

— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield

... account: But the Sheriff assuring him that there was no such disposition appearing among the People (which is an undoubted truth) Capt Preston's fears at length subsided: and he still remains in safe custody, to be tried by the Superior Court of Judicature, at the next term in August; unless the Judges shall think proper further to postpone the Trial, as they have done for one whole term, since he was indicted ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams

... islanders in their brutal drunken sprees. They had talked big, indeed, and made at first a show of resistance; but the general body of the exiles had authorised a powerful force of young and middle-aged men to take them into custody, and convey them on a raft, constructed for the purpose, to an island some ten miles distant. Here the rioters were left with a sufficient supply of provisions; a warning being given them that, should they attempt to return to Comoro, they would be put in irons, and kept in custody till they ...

— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson

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