definition of the word enchasten

by the Wiktionnary

En- (an intensifying prefix) + chasten (to chastise, subdue, or render chaste).^[1]

(RP) IPA: /ɛnˈʧeɪstə̆n/

Infinitive
to enchasten

Third person singular
enchastens

Past participle
enchastened

Present participle
enchastening

to enchasten (third-person singular simple present enchastens, present participle enchastening, simple past and past participle enchastened)

(rare, chiefly literary) Render chaste.
- 1907: Harry Houdini Collection, The Arena, p134
  
  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. […]
- 2006: Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White: With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas, p77/83
  
  […] And shall it e’er be said, that a poor hind,
  
  Nursed in the lap of Ignorance, and bred
  
  In want an 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 his 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? […]