enchain
verbEtymology From en- + chain.
1
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.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 239:
- [B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 152:
2
To link together.
- Derived terms
- disenchain, enchainment