| 单词 |
enfetter |
| 释义 |
enfetter, v.|ɛnˈfɛtə(r)| Also 7 infetter. [f. en-1 + fetter n.] trans. To put into fetters, lit. and fig.; also, to enslave to.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 351 His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1632) 581 Those seruitudes wherewith..they were supposed to be enfettered. 1626G. Sandy's Ovid's Met. iv. 75 Like a Serpent by an Eagle truss't; Which to his head and feet, infettered, clings. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 4 They haue the keys..of all the prisons..to infetter any at their beck. 1860C. Langster Hesperus, etc. 186 Love should be enfettered, hand and foot, For the long æon of a human year. |
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