enchained

Adjective

enchained (comparative more enchained, superlative most enchained)

1. Linked together; forming a chain or interrelated sequence.
   • A hem or seam for sewed articles, consisting of a main layer of textile or similar material and a superimposed layer of material having a turned-under edge and secured to said main layer by two connected rows of locked or enchained stitches entering and emerging at different points on the same side...1911, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-Mark and Copyright Cases, page 372
   • In order to determine the number of regioerrors per polymer chain, the intensity of the integrals from regioerrors (both terminated and enchained) was compared to the average polymer molecular weight (Table 3.1).2003 ·, Douglass Rodger Sillars, Mechanistic Investigations in Metallocene-catalyzed Alkene Polymerization Through Direct Observation of the Catalytic Species, page 132
2. Not free; bound by chains or as if by chains; in bondage.
   • Tell me, O ilustriaous deity, O sinless lord of all creatures, what are those words by which one becomes enchained and what those words by speaking which one may be freed from one's bonds.1893, Rāya, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, page 658
   • There have been statues of enchained gods throughout Greece, and the statue of Hera of Samos was one of the most famous among them.1971, Joseph Strelka, Anagogic Qualities of Literature - Volume 4, page 151