To binde to: to stoppe or let: to accuse or appeache. Alligare caput lana. Mart. To binde or wrappe the heade in wooll. Alligat naues anchora morsu. Virg. Fasteneth. Alligare vulnus. Cic. To wrappe or binde vp a wound. Alligare ad rem aliquam. Plin. Alligare ad palum. Cic. Quinque errantium motus in sphæram alligauit. Cic. Set them togither in the sphere. Alligare aliquem ensi. Cic. To tye one to his sword. Alligare, pro lmpedire. Virg. To let. Alligare iter. Stat. To let or stoppe a iourney. Impediri in re aliqua atque alligari. Cic. To be let and intaugled. Alligare aliquem. Tere. Eo pacto prorsum alligaris filium. By that meanes thou shalt stay. Alligare aliquem stipulatione. Cicer. By waging money to biude to the lawe. Alligari beneficio. Cic. Alligari noua lege. Cic. The charge with the obseruance of a new lawe. Alligat lex omnes mortales. Cic. Bindeth all. Alligari sacris. Cic. Alligare se scelere. Ci. So to do a thing, as he can not scape the blame of ill: to shew him selfe guiltie of any mischieuous acte. Hic furti se alligat. Terent. He chargeth him selfe or sheweth him selfe guiltie of. Alligare se ad præcepta catholica. Quint. Alligare se ad pœnam. Quint. To binde him selfe to abide any punishment.

I. A.. Lit., to bind to something: ad statuam, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 42, 90: ad palum, id. ib. 2, 5, 28, 71; so in the witticism of Cic.: Quis generum meum ad gladium adligavit? Macr. S. 2, 3: leones adligati, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13. —In Col. of binding the vine to trees or other supports, 4, 13; so id. 4, 20.—

B. In gen., to bind, to bind up, bind round: dolia, Cato, R. R. 39. So of the binding up of wounds: vulnus, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39: adligatum vulnus, Liv. 7, 24: oculus adligatus, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123.—Of the binding of the hands, feet, etc.: adliga, inquam, colliga, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 26: cum adligāsset Isaac filium, Vulg. Gen. 22, 9; ib. Act. 21, 11: adligari se ac venire patitur, Tac. G. 24: adligetur vinculo ferreo, Vulg. Dan. 4, 12: catenis, ib. Act. 21, 33.—Hence, allĭgāti (adl-) (sc. servi), slaves that are fettered, Col. 1, 9.—Of other things: adligare caput lanā, Mart. 12, 91: adligat (naves) ancora, makes or holds fast, Verg. A. 1, 169.—In Plin. of fixing colors, to fix, make fast: (alga) ita colorem adligans, ut elui postea non possit, 32, 6, 22, 66; 9, 38, 62, 134.—Poet.: lac adligatum, curdled, Mart. 8, 64.—

II. Trop., to bind, to hold fast, to hinder, detain; or in a moral sense, to bind, to oblige, lay under obligation (cf. obligo; very freq., but in the class. per. for the most part only in more elevated prose): caput suum, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 33: jure jurando adligare aliquem, id. Rud. prol. 46; Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 58: hic furti se adligat, shows himself guilty, id. Eun. 4, 7, 39 (astringit, illaqueat, et obnoxium facit, Don.; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 27: homo furti se astringet, Cic. Fl. 17; for this gen. cf. Roby, 1324): adligare se scelere, Cic. Planc. 33: adligatus sponsu, Varr. L. L. 6, 7 med.: nuptiis adligari, Cic. Clu. 179: lex omnes mortales adligat, id. ib. 54: non modo beneficio sed etiam benevolentiae significatione adligari, id. Planc. 33, 81: stipulatione adligari, id. Q. Rosc. 34: more majorum, id. Sest. 16: ne existiment ita se adligatos, ut, etc., id. Lael. 12, 42: ne forte quā re impediar et adliger, id. Att. 8, 16 al.— With dat. (eccl. Lat.): adligatus es uxori, Vulg. 1 Cor. 7, 27: legi, ib. Rom. 7, 2; ib. 1 Cor. 7, 39 (= lege).— Adligatus calculus, in games of chess, a piece that cannot be moved, Sen. Ep. 17 fin.