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From en- +‎ chain.

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enchain (third-person singular simple present enchains, present participle enchaining, simple past and past participle enchained)

  1. (transitive) To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
    • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 239:
      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, page 152:
      [B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.
  2. (transitive) To link together.

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