v. Also 6 enlincke, -lynck, inlin(c)k. [f. EN-1 + LINK.] trans. To fasten as with links; link together as in a chain; to join in company with; to connect closely; lit. and fig. Const. in, to, with.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 192 b. Cities of the Empire inlincked with the Protestantes.
1567. Drant, Horace’ Epist., To Rdr. *iiij. Maruaile that I wil now any longer enlincke my selfe in things so small.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. iv. 3. That lovely payre, Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., III. iii. 18. Fell feats, Enlynckt to wast and desolation.
1813. Scott, Trierm., III. xxx. Maids enlinked in sister-fold.
1848. De Quincey, Christianity, Wks. XII. 264. The one idea is enlinked with the other.
1883. T. Watts, in 19th Cent., March, 415. Coleridge was enlinked to modern life and thought.
Hence Enlinked ppl. a.; Enlinkment (rare), a linking on.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 50. The inlinked consanguinity betwixt him and Lady Lucar.
1881. Athenæum, 17 Sept., 370/2. The enlinkment of Condate with the camp at Kinderton near Middlewich.
