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Beholden
Behold Be*hold", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beheld(p. p. formerly Beholden, now used only as a p. a.); p. pr. & vb. n. Beholding.] [OE. bihalden, biholden, AS. behealdan to hold, have in sight; pref. be- + healdan to hold, keep; akin to G. behalten to hold, keep. See Hold.] To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. --Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. --John. i. 29. Syn: To scan; gaze; regard; descry; view; discern.
Beholden
Beholden Be*hold"en, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Beholden from wikipedia

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- intended to be a signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to those positions or interest groups. However, such a repudiation runs...
- In the United States, one of the two major political parties remains beholden to an authoritarian demagogue. Motivated by the "Big Lie" (the objectively...
- are old. You are beholden to the machines that you use. You are beholden to power cuts that take place for hours on end. You are beholden to machines that...
- singer Ani DiFranco in 1990 to release her own songs in lieu of being beholden to a mainstream record company. Righteous Babe Records was originally called...
- Post, and ****ured the public that neither he nor the newspaper would be beholden to any political party. But as a leading Republican who had been appointed...
- hands. The programme was designed primarily to create a landed gentry beholden to the crown, which would use the lands much more efficiently. Although...
- Haskell of Oklahoma, former Democratic Treasurer, said that Senators beholden to Standard Oil lobbied Roosevelt, in the summer of 1904, to authorize...
- federal officeholder could be an elector, none of the electors would be beholden to any presidential candidate. Another consideration was that the decision...
- agent or tool of the triumvirate". Clodius was an independent agent not beholden to the triumvirs or any ****tive po****r party. Gruen, Erich S (1966)....