Fromen- +chain.
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enchain (third-person singular simple presentenchains,present participleenchaining,simple past and past participleenchained)
- (transitive) Torestrain with, or as if with,chains.
1838,[Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, inDuty and Inclination: […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page239: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.
1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page152:[B]y this sign oneenchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.
- (transitive) Tolink together.
to restrain with, or as if with, chains
