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enchain
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. restrain or bind with chains
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enchain \En*chain"\, v. t. [F. encha[^i]ner; pref. en- (L. in) cha[^i]ne chain. See Chain , and cf. Incatenation .] To bind with a chain; to hold in chains. To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention. To link together; to connect. --Howell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "become linked together;" mid-15c., "to secure with a chain," from Old French enchainer , from Medieval Latin incatenare "enchain," from in (see in ) + catenare , from catena "a chain" (see chain (n.)). Related: Enchained ; enchaining .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to restrain with, or as if with, chains
Usage examples of enchain.
Her heart desires to enchain man permanently, while she herself is ever subject to the desire for change.
That thus enchains us to permitted ill-- We might be otherwise--we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical.
She would doubly sorrow over the strange link that enchains me to her, making my spirit obey her dying voice, following her, as it is about to do, to the unknown country.
I again felt, that we were enchained to the car of fate, over whose coursers we had no control.
Time onwards had this hour and this fulfilment enchained to them, since the void brought forth its burthen.
If all carnal concupiscence were enchained for three days in the mouth of the great abyss, the egg of one of the days would be wanting to the sick man.
He, like the others enchained, has become less than a man in the pain and labor and denial forced upon him.
Leaning against a curb hitching post was a person who enchained his attention.
Phoebus of philosophers, the all-wise Aristotle, whom God Himself made master of the master of the world, enchained by wicked hands and borne in shameful irons on the shoulders of gladiators from his sacred home.
But, being blind and deaf together, and, by fault of being deaf, being dumb as well, what word was to describe the desolation of her state, the blank void of her isolation--cut off, apart, aloof, shut in, imprisoned, enchained, a soul without communion with other souls: alive, and yet dead?
I was in the utmost perplexity, yet for all that, and the imminent danger I was in, I fell asleep, and a more troubled and tormenting sleep never enchained a mortal frame.
Marnoo, that all-attractive personage, having satisfied his hunger and inhaled a few whiffs from a pipe which was handed to him, launched out into an harangue which completely enchained the attention of his auditors.
Nor the events enchaining every will, That from the depths of unrecorded time Have drawn all-influencing virtue, pass Unrecognized, or unforeseen by thee, Soul of the Universe!
As the evening star shone out, and the orange sunset, far in the west, marked the position of the dear land we had for ever left, talk, thought enchaining, made the hours fly--O that we had lived thus for ever and for ever!
Moreover, the Templars were in general uneducated, and capable only of wielding the sword, with no qualifications for governing, and at need enchaining, that queen of the world called Opinion.