bethrall

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ thrall.

Alternative forms

• bethral

Verb

bethrall (third-person singular simple present bethralls, present participle bethralling, simple past and past participle bethralled)

1. (transitive, rare) To enthrall; enslave.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne let that wicked woman scape away ; For she it is , that did my lord bethrall