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Webster 1913 Edition


Enslave

En-slave′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enslaved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Enslaving
.]
To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
The conquer’d, also, and
enslaved
by war,
Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
Milton.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves
the will.
Cowper.

Webster 1828 Edition


Enslave

ENSLA'VE

,
Verb.
T.
[from slave.] To reduce to slavery or bondage; to deprive of liberty and subject to the will of a master. Barbarous nations enslave their prisoners of war, but civilized men barbarously and wickedly purchase men to enslave them.
1.
To reduce to servitude or subjection. Men often suffer their passions and appetites to enslave them. They are enslaved to lust, to anger, to intemperance, to avarice.

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enslave

enslave

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enslave (third-person singular simple present enslaves, present participle enslaving, simple past and past participle enslaved)

  1. (transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

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