enamor

present singular third person enamors · participle present enamoring · participle past enamored · past enamored · alternative enamour · alternative inamor · alternative inamour

1. USTo cause to be in love.

   Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.

   1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I

   2 more examples

   By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; [...]

   1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III

   He was offered a chair in the university and a course abroad. But he hesitated. There was a girl of whom he became enamored, so he contemplated marriage and political activity.

   1900, Leo Tolstoy, chapter 86, in William E. Smith, transl., The Awakening: The Resurrection

2. USTo captivate.

   Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.

   1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC