ensorcerizing

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
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