ensorcel

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And, heavens, how she will charm us and ensorcel our eyes!

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  1. To bewitch; use sorcery upon. Not any one of all these honor'd parts Your princely happes and habites that do moue, And as it were ensorcell all the hearts Of Christen kings to quarrel for your loue. Wyatt, qnoted in Puttenham's Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 187.

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  • And, heavens, how she will charm us and ensorcel our eyes! —  The Works of Max Beerbohm
  • It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that Abu Niyyah having appointed the Sultan for Meeting-day, when he would ensorcel the Princess, waited till the morning dawned. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Greek jar of red earthenware with a rope of palm-fibres about its neck, [FN#173] which rolled under her and ran faster than a Najdi colt, and she came up to them, and said, "Follow me and fear naught, for I know forty modes of magic by the least of which I could make this city a dashing sea, swollen with clashing billows, and ensorcel each damsel therein to a fish, and all before dawn. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Combining the best features of an action game and RPG, you'll slice, smash, shoot, and ensorcel some of the most horrible, vicious enemies ever encountered. —  Game Info Wire
  • a number is enough and to spare for passion-driven Catullus: so many that prying eyes may not avail to number, nor ill tongues to ensorcel. —  The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
 

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  1. from Old French ensorceler, bewitch, from en-+ sorceler, bewitch: see sorcery.
 

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