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Enchant like Samantha
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bewitch
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, biwicchen , from be- + Old English wiccian "to enchant, to practice witchcraft" (see witch ). Literal at first, figurative sense of "to fascinate" is from 1520s. *Bewiccian may well have existed in Old English, but it is not attested. Related: Bewitched ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bewitch \Be*witch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bewitched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bewitching .] To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bewitch (1945–1959) was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm , Kentucky , United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown . Each of them was eventually inaugurated into the Thoroughbred Hall ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture , enamour , trance , catch , becharm , enamor , captivate , beguile , charm , fascinate , entrance , enchant ] attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 to cast a spell on someone or something 2 to astonish, amaze
Usage examples of bewitch.
They had small areolae, of a bewitching dark coral which seemed most intense, and set in the centers of those sweetly angelic haloes appeared two dainty little pink buds, crinkly and twitching with every breath, sweet tidbits, morsels of delight for the lips and the tongue of an appreciative connoisseur such as I prided myself on being.
This enchantress had certainly bewitched him and addled his mind in the process.
Morse was a witch, and had bewitched her, and every time she came to see her she was the worse for her.
He specifically discussed the charge made by Susannah Goodwin who alleged that Elizabeth had bewitched her child.
Mather not only acknowledged that there were bewitched people but also reminded readers of the seemingly unending diversity of the invisible world, occurrences God permitted to afflict his people.
Devil, in a bewitched or possessed person does accuse them, will bring the guilt of innocent blood on the land, where such a thing shall be done.
Liath bewitched him with magic, or had the prince overwhelmed the poor young woman with his attentions?
And last, that same ill luck brought this liar to Lavas Holding, this man who tempted my cousin and bewitched him.
The covenant being broken, he was no longer safe, and she bewitched him to death.
The mayor of Youghal, in giving evidence against her, said there were three aldermen, whose children had been bewitched to death by the accused kissing the little ones.
Stretton, a young woman twenty years of age, was bewitched in 1669, and consequently suffered much by flax, hair, thread, and pins gathering in her throat.
On learning her husband had been so unfortunate while their neighbours had been successful, she suspected the nets were bewitched, and therefore procured consecrated water wherewith to sprinkle them.
Slowly he convinced himself of a lie: that she had bewitched him somehow into betraying his beloved.
A part of him still wanted to claim that the woman had bewitched him somehow, used foul enchantment to beguile him with her charms.
She was sitting there, wet and bedraggled as a drowned cat, and yet this handsome stranger was looking at her as if she was the most bewitching woman he had ever encountered.