Thrall
I’m familiar with enthralled, which is to captivate or subjugate. The 11/19/11 issue of The Economist referred to India as being “in thrall” with the Gandhi family, the “democratic world’s most successful political dynasty”. So in Britain at least, the root of the word is still in use. Thrall means slave. To be enthralled is to be enslaved by the idea you so admire.
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