v. Also 7 infetter. [f. EN-1 + FETTER sb.] trans. To put into fetters, lit. and fig.; also, to enslave to.
1604. Shaks., Oth., II. iii. 351. His Soule is so enfetter’d to her Loue.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. (1632), 565/2. Those seruitudes wherewith … they were supposed to be enfettered?
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1626), 75. Much like a Serpent by an Eagle truss’t; Which to his head and feet, infettered, clings.
1637. Bastwick, Litany, I. 4. They have the keys … of all the prisons … to infetter any at their beck.
1860. C. Langster, Hesperus, etc. 186. Love should be enfettered, hand and foot, For the long æon of a human year.
