ppl. a. [f. ENCHAIN v. + -ING2.] That enchains.

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  † 1.  Forming a chain or linked series. fig. Obs.

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1698.  R. White, trans. Digby’s Powd. Symp. (1660), 143. These … causes are so enchaining one within the other.

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  2.  That holds or rivets the attention.

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1823.  Sismondi’s Lit. Europe (1846), I. ii. 55. Scarcely a volume … contains passages breathing a more enchaining eloquence.

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1866.  J. Martineau, Ess., I. 64. The most enchaining and irresistible is James Mill.

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