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Definition of Incantation
1. Noun. A ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect.
Generic synonyms: Charm, Magic Spell, Magical Spell, Spell
Specialized synonyms: Invocation
Derivative terms: Conjure
Definition of Incantation
1. n. The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.
Definition of Incantation
1. Noun. The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results. ¹
2. Noun. A formula of words used as above. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incantation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incantation
Literary usage of Incantation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"incantation of Bride of the locks of gold, incantation of the beauteous Mary
Virgin, incantation of the Virtue of all virtues, incantation of the God of ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Series of incantation rituals have been discovered, named from the demons they
aim to foil or from the parts of the body affected by illness, ..."
3. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"As we ourselves previously discovered, smallpox had broken out in one of the
homes ; and vaccination is the white man's The white effective incantation ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1908)
"incantation :—Let it rise as a star, may it go out like a light; ... The incantation
is not invented of mankind, it is the incantation of Ba'u and Gula, ..."
5. Bards of the Gael and Gall: Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done by George Sigerson (1907)
"... had approached the shores of Erinn, they were driven back by a strange magic
wind. Amergin, their poet-druid and judge, then made this incantation. ..."
6. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1852)
"OUR illustrator Captain Johann Schmidt, inspired by his own sketches and onr wit,
has volunteered a cat and an imitation of the incantation in Macbeth, ..."
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