Incantation
[ɪnkæn'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnkæn'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.
(n.) A formula of words used as above.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Conjuration, sorcery, charm, spell, enchantment, magic, necromancy, witchery, witchcraft.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Recitation, spell, charm, invocation
ANT:Exorcism, evocation
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Definition
n. a formula of words said or sung in connection with certain ceremonies for purposes of enchantment.—n. In′cantātor.—adj. Incan′tatory.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream you are using incantations, signifies unpleasantness between husband and wife, or sweethearts. To hear others repeating them, implies dissembling among your friends.
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Examples
- I will teach her to throw spell and incantation over the soldiers of the blessed Temple. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They all stood in amazement, smiling uncannily, as if the rabbit were obeying some unknown incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Babylonian books of medic ine contained strange interminglings of prescription and incantation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The effect of this scene of incantation communicated a portion of its power to that which followed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This incantation to the moon. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As to his religious notions--why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no evi dence of a tendency to homeopathy, but mental healing seems to have been called into play by the use of numerous spells and incantations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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