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单词 enslave
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enslavev.

Brit. /ᵻnˈsleɪv/, /ɛnˈsleɪv/, U.S. /ᵻnˈsleɪv/, /ɛnˈsleɪv/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s inslave.
Etymology: < en- prefix1 + slave n.1
1. transitive. To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of. Also absol.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave
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bondage1611
enfetter1611
servilize1619
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beslave1634
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1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 59 in Poems Enslav'd, and sold to Ashur by his sins.
1793 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) 539 Much less can it give a right to kill, torture, abuse, plunder, or even to enslave, an enemy, when the war is over.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 277 Prevent them from..enslaving their brethren, of whatever complexion.
1867 C. H. Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 50 The ungrateful freedman might be enslaved again.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 348 Scipio..had moved forward from his head quarters at Tunis, plundering and enslaving as he went.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. To reduce to political ‘slavery’, deprive of political freedom.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > deprive of freedom > political
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α.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 43 Corrupt publike Officers and Judges of late times..have..endeavoured to enslave both us and our posterities.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 18 A nation may enslave it self by its too much wit.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 64 May with the same army enslave us.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 297 Such an army..was not very likely to enslave five millions of Englishmen.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) x. 241 She [Florence] was enslaved, she, once the freest of the free.
β. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 237 Joseph..Who by a Dream inslav'd th' Egyptian Land.1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 iv. 425 Confederating..to inslave the Dutch.
b. In moral or intellectual sense: To render (a person) a ‘slave’ to passion, habit, superstition, etc.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) > addict
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α.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. xx. 34 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Who doth esslave [1688 enslave] himself too strictly to words.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 28 Those whose consciences are not wholly enslaved to their fancies.
1736 S. Wesley Poems 137 Let Sin no more my Soul enslaves.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iv. 87 All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zicci 24 I am enslaved by her beauty.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 315 Luther declared man to be utterly enslaved by original sin.
1884 R. W. Church Bacon ix. 223 His Latin, without enslaving itself to Ciceronian types..is singularly forcible and expressive.
β. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. viii. sig. Dd4 To which unbridl'd Passions hurry the criminally unhappy Persons they have Inslav'd.1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 301 Pleasure inslaves us by often indulging.1746 Hurd Remarks Weston's Enquiry (R.) Inslaved to the tenets of a conceited philosophy.
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