incantational
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From incantation + -al.
Adjective
[edit]incantational (not comparable)
- Relating to incantation.
- 1979 August 25, Nancy Walker, “Sothers and Others”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 11:
- Names […] do make a surprisingly meaningful difference. The power of words is mystical, magical, incantational. The child learns "dirty" words because they have amazing properties — they can move adults to prompt and sometimes startling actions.
- 1994, Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, page 232:
- Some hint of the mantic/incantational subtext of Baal's speech to Anat may be found in a badly damaged and very difficult tablet, RS 92.2016 (Caquot and Dalix 2001:393–405).