autonomous vs bound

autonomous

adj
  • Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. 

  • Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 

  • Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject). 

bound

verb
  • To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. 

  • To be the bound of. 

  • I bound the splint to my leg. 

  • To leap, move by jumping. 

  • The rabbit bounded down the lane. 

  • To cause to leap. 

noun
  • A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. 

  • A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. 

  • A sizeable jump, great leap. 

  • A spring from one foot to the other in dancing. 

adj
  • Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of). 

  • That cannot stand alone as a free word. 

  • Very likely (to), certain to 

  • Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound. 

  • Obliged (to). 

  • Constrained by a quantifier. 

  • Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound. 

How often have the words autonomous and bound occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )