enchain

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Definition of enchain

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verb

(transitive)To restrain with, or as if with, chains.

“Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing.”
“[B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.”

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verb

(transitive)To restrain with, or as if with, chains.

“Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing.”
“[B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.”
(transitive)To link together.

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From en- + chain.

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