incantate
English
Verb
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, Curtis Publishing Company, Status, Issues 218-227
- Your modern witch never incantates in public.
- 1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
- 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
- In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.
- 1969, Curtis Publishing Company, Status, Issues 218-227
Related terms
Translations
to recite formulas during ceremonies
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Italian
Verb
incantate
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
incantāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of incantō
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