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enthral(l, v.|ɛnˈθrɔːl|
Also in-.
[f. en-1 + thrall n.
The n. thrall may here be taken in either of its two senses, ‘slave’ and ‘slavery.’]
1. trans. To reduce to the condition of a thrall; to hold in thrall; to enslave, bring into bondage. Now rare in lit. sense.
α1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Brutus iii, Ingrateful Cæsar who could Rome enthrall. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 512 A ransom is..that which is detained, or given for the releasing of that which is enthralled. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 321 The danger..of being again enthralled by the Spaniards. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxv, I am free! No one shall enthrall me.
β1614Raleigh Hist. World i. 39 Those people, which he [the Turk] hath subjected and inthralled. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy II. 495 It is as hard and dangerous..to inthrall a people, that would live free.
2. fig. To ‘enslave’ mentally or morally. Now chiefly, to captivate, hold spellbound, by pleasing qualities.
α1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 170 A man should not give over or enthrall his credit and honour to Harlots. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 142 So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 177 Vice doth enthral Men's strongest Powers. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvii, He was inclined to believe that a stratagem had enthralled him. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 123 And M—, in that simple dress, Enthralls us more by studying less. 1878E. Jenkins Haverholme 136 He was enthralled by the wizard spell of the orator.
β1603Daniel Def. Rhime (1717) 12 Seeking to please our Ear, we inthral our Judgment. 1636Healey Theophrast., Impert. Diligence 53 This fellow perswades him not so much to inthrall himselfe to his Physicians directions. c1720Prior Poems (1866) 12 She soothes, but never can inthral my mind. a1803Beattie Hermit (R.), Spring shall return, and a lover bestow And sorrow no longer thy bosom enthrall. 1859Kingsley Raleigh Misc. I. 30 The sense of beauty inthralls him at every step. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xviii. 516 To inthrall his mind by the influences of religion.
Hence enˈthralled ppl. a. enˈthraller, one who enthralls. enˈthralling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iv. 134 Loue hath chas'd sleepe from my enthralled eyes. 1600Holland Livy ii. xxiv. 59 The enthralled debtors..were immediatlie by name enrolled. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 75 Through our..backwardnes to recover any enthrall'd peece of truth out of the gripe of custom. 1640–4in Rushw. Hist. Coll. 111 (1692) I. 93 The subjecting and inthralling all Ministers under them. 1669Cokaine Poems 149 Her sweetest mouth..[is] All hearts enthraller. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 311 With an enthralled world to labour for them. 1820Scott Monast. xiii, Those of the Sucken, or enthralled ground, were liable in penalties. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xiv. 195 To break loose from the enthralling chains of earth. |