ensorcell

Example Sentences

• "Not any one of all theſe honord parts / Your Princely happes, and habites that do moue, / And as it vvere, enſorcell all the hearts / Of Chriſten kings to quarrell for your loue, […]"
• "[H]e called into presence the kazees and the witnesses, and brought in the three Qurundeels, and brought in the first damsel, and her own sister who had been ensorceled, and he married the three to the three Qurundeels, who had informed him that they were kings, […]"
• "Juana Maria did not explain why the father had ensorcelled her nephew, though others told me he did it because the nephew had "damaged" ["deflowered"] the girl and then refused to marry her."
• "Suroho defended his village by ensorceling enemies who tried to encroach on village land. […] Suroho was accused of ensorceling fellow villagers, and this made him so unpopular that his sons had to find wives in other villages."
• "The woman was obviously a witch. An evil, ungodly creature who would tolerate popery. A foul creature who had lured her husband into his besotted state with her beauty, and probably ensorceled other men as well."
• "A 52-year-old widower, Mr. A, was referred for a psychiatric evaluation to help in the determination of whether he was competent to stand trial and whether he had mental illness which met criteria for the insanity defense. […] [H]e also believed that she was in a conspiracy with his unnamed enemies to ensorcel him."