bethrall
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editbethrall (third-person singular simple present bethralls, present participle bethralling, simple past and past participle bethralled)
- (transitive, rare) To enthrall; enslave.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Ne let that wicked woman scape away ; For she it is , that did my lord bethrall