enchasten

present singular third person enchastens · participle present enchastening · participle past enchastened · past enchastened

1. literaryrareTo render chaste.

   I am the Child that motherless must weep, To hallow and enchasten all the land; And I am motherhood that cannot sleep, Without the pressure of a tiny hand. […]

   1907, Harry Houdini Collection, The Arena, page 134

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   And shall it e’er be said, that a poor hind, Nursed in the lap of Ignorance, and bred In want and labour, glows with nobler zeal To laud his Maker’s attributes, while he Whom starry Science in her cradle rock’d, And Castaly enchasten’d, with its dews, Closes his eyes upon the holy word, And, blind to all but arrogance and pride, Dares to declare his infidelity, And openly contemn the Lord of Hosts?

   a. 1807, Henry Kirke White, “Time: A Poem”, in The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, […], volume II, London: J[ohn] G[eorge] Barnard, […] for William Clark, […], published 1825, page 87