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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.

State of being enslaved.

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

One who enslaves. Swift.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To enslave again.

n; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

To enslave. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.

t escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.

To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall. The bars survive the captive they enthrall. Byron.

To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave. She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind. Prior.

To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope.

ject person; a wretch. Shak. Slave ant (Zoöl.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea. -- Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. -- Slave c…

ferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South.

Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. [Obs.] Spenser. The fiend that would make you thrall and bond. Chaucer.

Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ative of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants.