† excantationn.
/ɛkskanˈteɪʃən/ Obsolete. rare.
The action of removing (anything) by enchantment. Johnson 1755 explains the word as ‘disenchantment by a countercharm’, which may perhaps be the sense in quot. 1580.
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excantation1580
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 65v Which imagine that the minde is either by incantation or excantation to bee ruled.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxiii. 277 The Don..inchanted in his Cage, out of which there was no possibility of getting, but by the power of a higher excantation.
1863 W. W. Story Roba di Roma I. 271 This excantation of fruits was not the same as incantation.
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