Meaning of enchasten | Babel Free

Definitions

To render chaste.

literary, rare

Examples

“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?”

“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. […]”

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