Inthrall


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In`thrall´


v. t.1.To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave.
[imp. & p. p. Inthralled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inthralling.]
She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind.
- Prior.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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They who had once beheld its splendor were inthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it.
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And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of Poe's genius which inthralls every reader, Mr.
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(94) In Prynne's words again, 'as if wee had made a couenant with Hell, and sworne alleageance to the Deuill himselfe', when we watch a play we 'inthrall, and sell our selves to these Diabolicall, and hellish Enter-ludes'.
Theatre and/as witchcraft: a reading of The Late Lancashire Witches (1634)

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