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• n  the state of being under the control of another person
• n  someone held in bondage

• Visionaries are possessed creatures, men and women in the thrall of belief so powerful that they ignore all elseeven reasonto ensure that reality catches up with their dreams.
• Visiting a town that thinks itself in the thrall of some evil creature, the Grimms exorcise the demon, take the money and run.
• I don't think there's any way in which it can be good for the Republican Party to be seen as in thrall to The Mouth That Roared, any more than it would be good for the Democrats to .

• bondage
• slavery
• thralldom
• thraldom

News & Articles

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• World stocks pummelled, dollar slumps as rout gathers pace
  By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks were pummelled and the dollar slumped on Thursday as a sell-off on global financial markets in thrall to central bank stimulus accelerated. European shares ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Adam McKay in Kansas City Star
  You're seeing more characters who are way out of touch with their lack of success and come down almost in a death thrall,said McKay. "The shading has gotten a little darker, there's no question."
• Jerome Corsi in WorldNetDaily
  The European Union, which now holds millions of voiceless, voteless Europeans in thrall to a heedless Brussels bureaucracy, was put into place little by little over a 50-year period,Corsi writes, "not by the citizens of the member states,...
• Charles Krauthammer in New York Times
  The conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer wrote in Time magazine that to teach intelligent design "as science is to encourage the supercilious caricature of America as a nation in the thrall of a religious authority."