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enchanter|ɛnˈtʃɑːntə(r), -æ-|
Forms: 4 enchantour, -eor, enchauntur, -or, (enchauntonour), 4–5 enchauntour, 4–6 -ter, 5 -eure, 6 inchaunter, 6–7 inchanter, 3– enchanter.
[f. enchant v. + -er; but the ME. forms in -ur, -or, -our, etc., are formally a. OF. enchanteor:—L. incantātōrem.]
1. One who enchants, uses magic (see enchant v. 1); formerly also, a ‘conjuror’, one who practises sleight of hand.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 28 Þe kyng Baþulf..gret enchanter was. c1305St. Lucy in E.E.P. (1862) 104 Myne enchantours bynyme schulle þi wicchinge. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋615 Fflatereres been the deueles Enchauntours. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xl. (1495) 566 This stone Eliotrop dyscerneth the foly of enchauntours. c1430Pilg. Life Manhode ii. cxxii. (1869) 121 If evere thou seye an enchantour pleye with an hat, how he maketh the folk to wene there be somewhat under. c1450Merlin vii. 113 Now hath the enchauntor well spoken. 1541Elyot Image Gov. 7 Using the counsayle of witches and inchaunters, he made his sacrifice with young children. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 56 He must pay a great summe of money to the inchanter to be purified. 1634Milton Comus 645 By this means I knew the foul enchanter. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. ii. (1840) 58 Whether..we consider the Magicians to be philosophers, or..enchanters and conjurers. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 215 The art of the enchanter is a mode of charming snakes and spiders.
b. transf. A ‘charmer’, bewitching woman.
a1704T. Brown Beauties (1730) I. 42 With sure success each fair enchanter set Toyles for my heart.
2. enchanter's nightshade, Circæa lutetiana.
1597Gerard Herbal ii. lix. 280 Inchaunters Nightshade hath leaues like vnto Petimorell. 1775Ash, Enchanters-nightshade. The name of a plant, the circæa. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 290 Order Onagrariæ. Circæa Lutetiana (common Enchanter's Night-shade). |