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charmed, ppl. a.|tʃɑːmd, in verse also ˈtʃɑːmɪd|
[f. charm v. + -ed1.]
1. Influenced by magic power, bewitched, under a spell.
c1440Promp. Parv. 70 Charmyd, incantatus. 1815Chron. in Ann. Reg. 90/1 A farmer had a daughter..who was seized with a lingering disorder..He..persuaded himself that his daughter was charmed. 1821Keats Lamia 112 The charmèd god began An oath.
2. Affected with a magic spell, so as to possess occult powers or qualities; enchanted.
a1535More Wks. 377 (R.) Anoynted wyth the holye chrisme, which he calleth charmed oyle. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 50 He beares a charmed shield, And eke enchaunted armes, that none can perce. 1634Milton Comus 51 Circe..whose charmèd cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iv. xi, The charmed water. 1877W. Jones Finger-ring L. 114 Apollonius..considered the use of charmed rings..essential to quackery.
3. Of persons or lives: Fortified, protected, rendered invulnerable, etc., by a spell or charm.
1605Shakes. Macb. v. viii. 12 Let fall thy blade on vulnerable Crests, I beare a charmed Life. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 245 Hence came..the story of Kidd's having a charmed life, and that he had to be twice hanged. 1884Chr. World 9 Oct. 757/4 General Gordon believes himself to bear a charmed life.
4. a. Fascinated, greatly delighted.
Mod. She sang to a charmed audience.
b. As a conventional colloquial or jocular reply, = I am delighted; I am or shall be very pleased (to do something). Cf. charm v.1 5 a.
1856Dickens Dorrit ii. vii. 384 ‘So delighted,’ said Mrs. Merdle, ‘to resume an acquaintance so inauspiciously begun at Martigny.’ ‘At Martigny, of course,’ said Fanny, ‘Charmed, I am sure!’ 1920Wodehouse Jill the Reckless i. 18 ‘Like you,’ mumbled Freddie, ‘to meet my friends. Lady Underhill. Mr. Devereux.’ ‘Charmed,’ said Ronnie affably. 1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies v. 82 ‘Do you mind terribly?’ ‘Not as much as all that,’ said Nina, and added in Cockney, ‘Charmed, I'm sure.’
5. Particle Physics. Having the property charm (charm n.1 6).
1964[see charm n.1 6]. 1970Physical Rev. D II. 1290/2 We expect the appearance of charmed hadron states. 1979McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 318/2 The charmed quark c had been predicted theoretically, and was..needed to explain the slow decay KoL → µ+µ-. |