ensorcerize

Verb

ensorcerize (third-person singular simple present ensorcerizes, present participle ensorcerizing, simple past and past participle ensorcerized)

1. (transitive) To control, transform, or otherwise affect through sorcery.
   • Traitors found excuse for their treason in the assertion that they had been deluded by false predictions, or ensorcerised by magic;1852, Julia Pardoe, chapter 2, in The Life of Marie de Medicis, volume 1, page 138
   • Soclarus then refers to the fact that even friends, relations, and fathers, sometimes unintentionally bewitch their children, and goes on to speak of those who even fascinate and ensorcerise themselves by their own gaze.1877, William Wetmore Story, “The Evil Eye”, in Castle St. Angelo and The Evil Eye, page 161
2. (figuratively) To hold someone's attention or interest as if through sorcery.
   • We experience something of a very old magic: the same delight that comes to us when we read in a fairy tale of a witch who is beheaded without suffering harm, or when we have a dream of walking through a solid wall or a closed door, or when we watch that hackneyed but never-failing trick of...1947, Alan Devoe, chapter 14, in Speaking of Animals, page 98
   • And I remembered it often, later, waking up in that cabin to windows steamed blue and the sun gone around the island; remembered putting down those queer, stark sentences half blind on yellow paper; remembered walking ensorcerized, tethered, down the gray cobble beach like an aisle.1989, Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, page 77