To place in debt; to cause someone to owe money or to be obligated to repay something.
From the prefix 'en-' (to cause to be) combined with 'debt' (from Old French 'dette,' from Latin 'debita'). The word means to put someone into the state of owing money.
This verb is almost obsolete, but it appears in historical documents and Shakespeare—it was useful when English writers needed a verb form of the noun 'debt,' much like 'endear' is the verb form of 'dear.'
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