incantate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin incantāt-, participle stem of incantō.[1]
Verb[edit]
incantate (third-person singular simple present incantates, present participle incantating, simple past and past participle incantated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
- 1969, Status[1], numbers 218-227, Curtis Publishing Company:
- Your modern witch never incantates in public.
- 1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday[2]:
- Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.
- 2010, S. Giora Shoham, To Test the Limits of Our Endurance[3]:
- In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to recite formulas during ceremonies
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References[edit]
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Incantate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 142, column 1: “f. ppl. stem of L. incantāre: see prec.”
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
incantate
- inflection of incantare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
incantate f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
incantāte
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