fascinous

English

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Etymology

From Latin fascinum (“witchcraft”), akin to fascinare. See fascinate.

Adjective

fascinous (not comparable)

(obsolete) Caused or acting by witchcraft.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
  fascinous diseases
- 1834, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (page 149)
  […] nor did I ever but once see him escape from the fascinous kind of influence which had seized upon him.
- 1872, Carey Hazelwood, Grayworth: a Story of Country Life (volume 2, page 43)
  […] that time, when I almost cursed humanity at large, and believed it to be a fascinous frailty to call woman by any other name than fiend; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fascinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)