enchasten
English
Etymology
En- (an intensifying prefix) + chasten (to chastise, subdue, or render chaste).[1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
enchasten (third-person singular simple present enchastens, present participle enchastening, simple past and past participle enchastened)
- (rare, chiefly literary) Render chaste.
- 1907, Harry Houdini Collection, The Arena, page 134:
- I am the Child that motherless must weep,
- To hallow and enchasten all the land;
- And I am motherhood that cannot sleep,
- Without the pressure of a tiny hand. […]
- 2006: Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White: With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas, p77/83
- […] And shall it e’er be said, that a poor hind,
- Nursed in the lap of Ignorance, and bred
- In want an labour, glows with nobler zeal
- To laud his maker’s attributes, while he
- Whom starry Science in her cradle rock’d,
- And Castaly enchasten’d with his dews,
- Closes his eyes upon the holy word,
- And, blind to all but arrogance and pride,
- Dares to declare his infidelity,
- And openly contemn the Lord of Hosts? […]
References
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).