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fascination|fæsɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. fascinātiōn-em, n. of action f. fascināre to fascinate.]
1. The casting of a spell; sorcery, enchantment; an instance of this, a spell, incantation. Obs. exc. Hist.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xi. §3. 46 Fascination is the power and act of Imagination intensiue vpon other bodies. 1615Crooke Body of Man 60 We deny that fascination or bewitching is done onely by sight. 1626Donne Serm. cxxxix. V. 488 When Elijah used that holy Fascination upon Elisha to spread his mantle over him. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus i. 1 The odd Phœnomena of Witchcraft and Fascination. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. iv. (1852) 66 They began to suspect that the Indian sorcerers had laid the place under some fascination. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 204 A belief in Fascination..appears to have been very generally prevalent in most ages and countries.
†b. The state of being under a spell. Obs.
1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 101 Fascination is a binding, which comes from the spirit of the Witch, through the eyes of him that is bewitched, entering to his heart. 1767Fawkes Theocritus vi. note, The antients imagined that spitting in their bosoms three times..would prevent fascination.
2. The action and the faculty of fascinating their prey attributed to serpents, etc.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 219 They [Rattle Snakes] are supposed to have the power of fascination in an eminent degree. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, The fascination of the serpent on the bird held her mute and frozen.
b. The state of being so fascinated.
1831Brewster Nat. Magic iii. (1833) 43 Mrs. A. described herself as at the time sensible of a feeling like what we conceive of fascination.
3. Fascinating quality; irresistibly attractive influence; an instance or mode of this.
1697Evelyn Numism. ix. 301 Unaccountable Fascination, or other material Quality of Mastering Spirits. 1784Cowper Task vi. 101 Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwinked. a1806K. White My own Charac. 42 in Rem. (1816) I. 29, I..can't withstand you know whose fascination. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 209 A Frenchwoman..will ever be felt..to be a creature of fascination. 1843Prescott Mexico (1820) I. 185 The career thus thrown open had all the fascinations of a desperate hazard. 1847Emerson Repr. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 283 Like a master..drawing all men by fascination into tributaries. 1860Hawthorne Transform. I. xix. 203 The perilous fascination which haunts the brow of precipices. |