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enchantment|ɛnˈtʃɑːntmənt, -æ-|
Forms: 4–7 enchaunt(e)ment, 5–8 inchaunt(e)ment, 3– enchantment.
[a. OF. enchantement, f. enchanter to enchant: see -ment.]
1. The action or process of enchanting, or of employing magic or sorcery.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 10 A clerk þoru enchantement hym bi gan to telle. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1943 Thenchauntementz of Medea and Circes. c1400Mandeville iv. (1839) 25 It is made be Enchauntement. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. x, By the damoysels enchauntement the swerd..felle oute of Accolons hande. 1526Tindale Rev. xviii. 23 With thyne inchantment were deceaved all nacions. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxvii. 236 There is no place of Scripture, that telleth us what an Enchantment is. 1710Steele Tatler No. 9 ⁋2, I saw his great Coach..by a strange Inchantment turned into many different Vehicles. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiv, That he was under the influence of enchantment, was a solution which superstition had suggested. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 79 Poetical fables have placed Charlemagne in a world of heroism and enchantment.
2. fig. Alluring or overpowering charm; enraptured condition; (delusive) appearance of beauty.
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 1179 Th' inchantment of her Riches. a1704T. Brown Praise Drunk. Poet. Wks. 1730 I. 32 The soft enchantment of the vine. 1799Campbell Pleas. Hope i. 7 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view. 1823Lamb Elia i. xviii. (1865) 137 Is there not..some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Farming Wks. (Bohn) III. 60 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 3 The delight of enchantment among ideas of grace and beauty. |