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), volume 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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