enchain

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English chain English enchain From en- + chain.

1. To restrain with, or as if with, chains.

   “Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing.”

   “[B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.”

2. To link together.