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Definition of enchain in English: enchainverb ɛnˈtʃeɪnɪnˈtʃeɪn [with object]literary Bind with or as with chains. 〈诗/文〉用链锁住；束缚 the statue of Louis XIV, with four slaves enchained whenever he spoke all were enchained Example sentencesExamples - Several details are reminiscent of Fuzelier's Les amours déguisés, including the ‘fleet of cupids’ and the lovers enchained with garlands of roses.
- Venus, accompanied by her Games and Pleasures disguised as sailors, invites mortals to accompany them, and in fact has her cupids enchain the lovers with garlands of roses.
- Arrino was a man who did as he pleased, who answered to no one - not even me - so how had he ended up enchained by the laws of social convention that he had always been contemptuous of?
- Education is slavery, it enchains the mind and makes it a resource for class power.
- He used to be enchained by his own self-consciousness.
- Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
- As long as he retains human form, he is enchained by our institutions…
- By the time he wrote his preface, he had come to the conclusion that, ’… to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride.’
Derivativesnoun literary Second, she stretched chains around a group of trees in an adjoining forest and they began to bend and grow toward one another from the force of the enchainment.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French enchainer, based on Latin catena 'chain'. Definition of enchain in US English: enchainverb [with object]literary Bind with or as with chains. 〈诗/文〉用链锁住；束缚 the statue of Louis XIV, with four slaves enchained whenever he spoke all were enchained Example sentencesExamples - Arrino was a man who did as he pleased, who answered to no one - not even me - so how had he ended up enchained by the laws of social convention that he had always been contemptuous of?
- Education is slavery, it enchains the mind and makes it a resource for class power.
- He used to be enchained by his own self-consciousness.
- As long as he retains human form, he is enchained by our institutions…
- Several details are reminiscent of Fuzelier's Les amours déguisés, including the ‘fleet of cupids’ and the lovers enchained with garlands of roses.
- Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
- Venus, accompanied by her Games and Pleasures disguised as sailors, invites mortals to accompany them, and in fact has her cupids enchain the lovers with garlands of roses.
- By the time he wrote his preface, he had come to the conclusion that, ’… to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride.’
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French enchainer, based on Latin catena ‘chain’. |