Recently, I used the word "enrolling" to describe my daughters persuasiveness/charming behavior. My friends being the word Nazis that they are, quickly denounced my use of the word in this fashion and said it was an abuse of the english language.

I sympathize with you on the grammatohooligans, but I don't quite get how you were using the word to mean what you intended it to mean. Could you supply the actual utterance in context? Something similar to enthralling or engaging?

Ceci n'est pas un seing.