enchain
verb (used with object)
to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain.
had enchained
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past perfectof enchain.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The spell of the past, the spell of custom and tradition, which had enchained the minds of men was roughly broken.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
A strange, potent weaving of the spell had been on him then, and, gradual in its development, had enchained him and now held him fast.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
Nearly an hour later Arkwright came for him, cut him off in the middle of an enthusiastic description of how he had enchained and enthralled a vast audience in the biggest hall in St. Paul.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
Strengthened by your example and endowed with an invincible energy, the French people have vanquished that tyranny which during so many centuries of ignorance, superstition, and baseness had enchained a generous nation.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
That ascetic spirit was paramount, which had enchained the Christian world, that renunciation of secular affairs which explains the peculiar methods by which mediaeval views of life found expression.
From Christianity and Islam by C.H. Becker
