enamor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENAM'OR, verb transitive [Latin amor, love.] To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; with of before the person or thing; as, to be enamored of a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [But it is now followed by with.]
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