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▪ I. † enˈchanting, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. enchant v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. enchant.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1567) 95 a, I maie call it rather an enchaunting then a murther. 1571Campion Hist. Irel. ii. v. (1633) 85 Whom the Bishop ascited to purge the same of inchaunting and Witch-craft.
▪ II. enchanting, ppl. a.|ɛnˈtʃɑːntɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. enchant v. + -ing2.]
1. That enchants or lays under a spell.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 53 Stoppe thyne eares from..the inchauntynge mermaydes. 1590Greene Fr. Bacon (1861) 172 The enchanting forces of the devil. 1626G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. 135 On Pelias..she hung a deathlike sleepe with her inchanting tongue.
2. Charming, delightful, enrapturing.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. ii. 132, I must from this enchanting Queene breake off. 1667Milton P.L. x. 355 Sin, his faire inchanting Daughter, thus the silence broke. 1718Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xlviii. 50 It has an enchanting effect. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 120 No spectrum analysis can decompose for us that enchanting ray. |