v. [f. SPELL sb.1 3, after SPELL-BOUND a.] trans. To bind by, or as by, a spell; to fascinate, enchant.
1808. Southey, Chron. Cid, 380. Hermogenes spell-bound him so that he could not move.
1861. J. Pycroft, Agony Point, I. 160. The eye of the experienced physician spell-binds the lunatic.
1877. C. Geikie, Christ, xlix. (1879), 590. The power and majesty of His discourse … had spell-bound so many others.
