ensorcell

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɛnˈsɔːs(ə)l/
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/ɛnˈsɔːs(ə)l/ · /ɪn-/ · /ɛnˈsɔɹsəl/

Definition of ensorcell

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (UK, transitive)To bewitch or enchant.
    “Not any one of all theſe honord parts / Your Princely happes, and habites that do moue, / And as it were, enſorcell all the hearts / Of Chriſten kings to quarrell for your loue, […]”
    “[H]e called into presence the kazees and the witnesses, and brought in the three Qurundeels, and brought in the first damsel, and her own sister who had been ensorceled, and he married the three to the three Qurundeels, who had informed him that they were kings, […]”
    “Juana Maria did not explain why the father had ensorcelled her nephew, though others told me he did it because the nephew had "damaged" ["deflowered"] the girl and then refused to marry her.”
    “Suroho defended his village by ensorceling enemies who tried to encroach on village land. […] Suroho was accused of ensorceling fellow villagers, and this made him so unpopular that his sons had to find wives in other villages.”
    “The woman was obviously a witch. An evil, ungodly creature who would tolerate popery. A foul creature who had lured her husband into his besotted state with her beauty, and probably ensorceled other men as well.”
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verb

  1. (UK, transitive)To bewitch or enchant.
    “Not any one of all theſe honord parts / Your Princely happes, and habites that do moue, / And as it were, enſorcell all the hearts / Of Chriſten kings to quarrell for your loue, […]”
    “[H]e called into presence the kazees and the witnesses, and brought in the three Qurundeels, and brought in the first damsel, and her own sister who had been ensorceled, and he married the three to the three Qurundeels, who had informed him that they were kings, […]”
    “Juana Maria did not explain why the father had ensorcelled her nephew, though others told me he did it because the nephew had "damaged" ["deflowered"] the girl and then refused to marry her.”
    “Suroho defended his village by ensorceling enemies who tried to encroach on village land. […] Suroho was accused of ensorceling fellow villagers, and this made him so unpopular that his sons had to find wives in other villages.”
    “The woman was obviously a witch. An evil, ungodly creature who would tolerate popery. A foul creature who had lured her husband into his besotted state with her beauty, and probably ensorceled other men as well.”
  2. (UK, figuratively, transitive)To captivate, entrance, or fascinate.
    “[A] distinction is drawn between the man who speaks as a friend and the man who acts like one. Not only might someone fail to live up to his words in deed, but he may ‘ensorcell’ or ‘beguile’ (θέλγοι) a fellow drinker, leading him to believe in friendship that is not supported by his conduct.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French ensorceler (“to cast a spell, enchant; to captivate”), a variant of ensorcerer, from en- (prefix meaning ‘caused’) + sorcier (“sorcerer”) (ultimately from Latin sors (“fate, lot; oracular response”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”)).

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