Definition of "enchain"

enchain

verb
third-person singular simple present enchains, present participle enchaining, simple past and past participle enchained
1. (transitive) To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
  Quotations
  Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing.
  1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 239
  [B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.
  1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 152
2. (transitive) To link together.