enslave
(verb) make a slave of; bring into servitude
Source: WordNet® 3.1
enslave (third-person singular simple present enslaves, present participle enslaving, simple past and past participle enslaved)
(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
• beslave, bethrall, enslaven
• leavens
Source: Wiktionary
En*slave", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enslaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Enslaving.]
Definition: To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 January 2025
(adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; “works of all the aforementioned authors”; “said party has denied the charges”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
