incantate

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English

Etymology

From Latin incantāt-, participle stem of incantō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

incantate (third-person singular simple present incantates, present participle incantating, simple past and past participle incantated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
    • 1969, Status‎, numbers 218-227, Curtis Publishing Company:
      Your modern witch never incantates in public.
    • 1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday‎:
      Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.
    • 2010, S. Giora Shoham, To Test the Limits of Our Endurance‎:
      In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.

Derived terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂n- (0 c, 24 e)

Translations

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “† Incantate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 142, column 1: “f. ppl. stem of L. incantāre: see prec.”

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

incantate

  1. inflection of incantare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

incantate f pl

  1. feminine plural of incantato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

incantāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of incantō
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