beholden Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb see with attention
    behold; lay eyes on.
    • behold Christ!
  2. adjective satellite under a moral obligation to someone

WordNet

Be*hold"en participial adjective
Etymology
Old p. p. of behold, used in the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.
Definitions
  1. Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
    But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.

Webster 1913