enslavement

[Eng. enslave; -ment.] 1. The act of enslaving or reducing to servitude or bondage. 2. The state of being enslaved; slavery, bondage, servitude. "The children of Israel, according to their method of sinning, after mercies, and thereupon returning to a fresh enslavement to their enemies, had now pa ed seven years in cruel subjection."- South : Sermons, vol. i., ser. 11. ěn-slāv-er, s. [Eng. enslav (e); -er.] One who or that which enslaves, physically or mentally. "Forgets her empires with a just decay, The enslavers and the enslaved, their death and Byron: Childe Harold , iii. 67. birth." IMG:content-1027.png:[blocks in formation] *ěn-sō-běr, v. t. [Pref. en , and English sober (q. v.).] To make sober. IMG:content-1028.png:[blocks in formation] "Our enemyes ensuing with a great noyse."-Golding, Cæsar, p. 134. 2. To follow in course of time, or in a series of events; to succeed. "The like endeavors to renew Should e'er a kindlier time ensue ." Words worth: White Doe of Rylstone, iii. *3. To follow as a consequence of premises; to result. "Let this be granted, and it shall hereupon plainly ensue, that the light of Scripture once shining in the world, all other light of nature is therewith in such sort drowned, that now we need it not."-Hooker: Eccles. Polity . IMG:content-1029.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1030.png:[blocks in formation] Eng. sphere (q.v.).] 1. To place in or as in a sphere. 2. To form into roundne ; to make into a sphere. *ěn-spire, v . t . [INSPIRE.] *ěn-stâll', v . t . [INSTALL.] ěn-stămp', v. t. [Pref. en, and English stamp (q. v.).] To mark as with a stamp; to stamp; to impre deeply. ěn-stāte', v. t. [Pref. en, and Eng. state (q. v.).] To instate (q. v.).