ensorcel
English edit
Verb edit
ensorcel (third-person singular simple present ensorcels, present participle ensorceling, simple past and past participle ensorceled)
- (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of ensorcell
- 1888, “Tale of the Second Damsel”, in Henry [Whitelock] Torrens, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: From the Arabic of the Ægyptian M.S. […] Done into English, volume I, Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co., […], London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 182:
- [H]e called into presence the kazees and the witnesses, and brought in the three Qurundeels, and brought in the first damsel, and her own sister who had been ensorceled, and he married the three to the three Qurundeels, who had informed him that they were kings, […]
- 1992, Karen J. Brison, “Leaders as Bad Men and Victims”, in Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology; 11), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:
- Suroho defended his village by ensorceling enemies who tried to encroach on village land. […] Suroho was accused of ensorceling fellow villagers, and this made him so unpopular that his sons had to find wives in other villages.
- 1996, Bertrice Small, Wild Jasmine, 1st mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 384:
- The woman was obviously a witch. An evil, ungodly creature who would tolerate popery. A foul creature who had lured her husband into his besotted state with her beauty, and probably ensorceled other men as well.
- 1998, Alan R. Felthous, “Psychotic Perceptions of Pet Animals in Defendants Accused of Violent Crimes”, in Randall Lockwood, Frank R. Ascione, editors, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings in Research and Application, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Case Studies, Case Control, and Prospective Research), page 125:
- A 52-year-old widower, Mr. A, was referred for a psychiatric evaluation to help in the determination of whether he was competent to stand trial and whether he had mental illness which met criteria for the insanity defense. […] [H]e also believed that she was in a conspiracy with his unnamed enemies to ensorcel him.
- 2009, Daniel Albright, “Heine and the Composers”, in Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song (Eastman Studies in Music; 69), Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 33:
- This gentle poem is a model of reader-response theory: the song moulders in the book until the reader, the One Right Reader, ensorcels it, ensouls it.
- 2017, Kelwyn Sole, “The New Explorers”, in Walking, Falling, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa: Deep South, →ISBN, part II, page 40:
- As they walk on, a world of glass and steel / ensorcels and surrounds them / so even as they move, they never find an exit.