excantation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin excantare (“to charm out”).

Noun[edit]

excantation (countable and uncountable, plural excantations)

  1. (obsolete) Disenchantment by a countercharm.
    • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
      […] his Cage, out of which, there was no possibility of getting, but by the power of a higher excantation

References[edit]

“excantation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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