ensignship (ens in ship)

[ It is not the least of the recommendations of the new proce of preserving green fodder, called ensilage , that barous nations their prisoners of war. What do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations? Milton , P. R., iii. 75. It was also held lawful to enslave any infidel or person who did not receive the Christian faith. Sumner , Orations, I. 217. 2. Figuratively, to reduce to a condition analogous to slavery; deprive of moral liberty or power; subject to an enthralling influence: as, to be enslaved by drink or one's pa ions. Enslar'd am I, though King, by one wild Word, And my own Promise is my cruel Lord. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 192. Having first brought into subjection the bodies of men, had no hard task, afterwards, to enslave their souls. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. iii. Women of genius, even more than men, are likely to be enslaved by an impa ioned sensibility. Marg. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent., p. 103. enslaved ne