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A ritual recitation of magical words or sounds
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incantation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incantation is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System platforming game released in 1996 by Titus Software.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results. 2 A formula of words used as above.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And so prayers and incantations continue. ▪ And this can be as destructive to enjoyment and adventure as inflated claims or solemn incantations. ▪ And when the six-strong cast burst into stumbling raps or ranting incantations, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French incantacion "spell, exorcism" (13c.), from Latin incantationem (nominative incantatio ) "art of enchanting," noun of action from past participle stem of incantare "bewitch, charm," literally "sing spells" (see enchantment ).
Usage examples of incantation.
The visit to Alman had made physical demands on all of them, and Tenoctris had the effort of the incantations besides.
Guinalle heard you had seen an Elietimm priest raise the image of its owner from an artefact for the Aldabreshin, she worried at the notion like a dog with a bone until she had perfected the incantations.
Go back to your crucifix or your crucible and change your bleeping incantation.
Casting before him a cabbalistic incantation that smashed the etheric lattice of the window, and seemed to carry him with it, out of the pavilion he sprang, snatching up as he hurtled through a sword of honed steel from the bench.
I did the same, but I could not help feeling some regret at having engaged myself not to take advantage of the position before the night of the great incantation.
When the correct incantation was spoken, the one and only Great All-knowing Cumquat would start to glow, and at that moment it had to be picked and shortly after consumed or the power would be lost forever.
We can accept magic in these old tales, even to the incantations of Bobaran the White that swayed the waves of the sea so that Gaer, the son of Deirdre, was saved from the men of Lochlin.
The liches were already dead, but perhaps her own blood would give Meder the power he needed for his incantation.
The Yogi did a number of preparatory gesticulations, and spoke what sounded like solemn incantations, then parted his dhoti rags and unashamedly pulled out his linga, which was like a black-barked twig.
If he did not find the phylactery soon, he would have to rest, restudy his spellbooks, re-memorize the incantations that slipped from his fatigued mind one by one as he cast them.
She muttered her placatory charm, and tottered back into her cavern, where, amidst her herbs and incantations, she prepared to execute the orders of the Egyptian.
Aumlar ignored it, intent on puncing the first words of the incantation.
Rander of South-beach, who tried to banish the shapeshifter or conjure up something of his own, but Katherian was fighting his every incantation, and Rander was pretty clearly outmatched right from the start.
Rander of Southbeach, who tried to banish the shapeshifter or conjure up something of his own, but Katherian was fighting his every incantation, and Rander was pretty clearly outmatched right from the start.
I made all the proper incantations, swaddling her in a glamour of healing.