Crossword clues for enchant
enchant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enchant \En*chant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchanting.] [F. enchanter, L. incantare to chant or utter a magic formula over or against one, to bewitch; in in, against + cantare to sing. See Chant, and cf. Incantation.]
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To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.
--Shak.He is enchanted, cannot speak.
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To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.
Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted.
--Sir P. Sidney.Syn: To charm; bewitch; fascinate. Cf. Charm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., literal and figurative, from Old French enchanter "bewitch, charm, cast a spell" (12c.), from Latin incantare "to enchant, fix a spell upon" (see enchantment). Or perhaps a back-formation from enchantment.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To attract and delight, to charm. 2 To cast a spell over.
WordNet
v. hold spellbound [syn: enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant]
attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance]
cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something [syn: hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, jinx]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Enchant may refer to:
- Performing an incantation
- Enchant (band), a progressive rock band
- Enchant (album), a 2003 album by Emilie Autumn
- Enchant (software), a spell-checker
Enchant is a free software project developed as part of the AbiWord word processor with the aim of unifying access to the various existing spell-checker software. Enchant wraps a common set of functionality present in a variety of existing products/libraries, and exposes a stable API/ABI for doing so. Where a library doesn't implement some specific functionality, Enchant will emulate it.
Enchant is capable of having multiple backends loaded at once. As of May 2009 it has support for 8 backends:
- Aspell/ Pspell (intends to replace Ispell)
- Ispell (old, could be interpreted as de facto standard)
- Hunspell/ MySpell (a LibreOffice project, also used by Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox)
- Uspell (primarily Yiddish, Hebrew, and Eastern European languages – hosted in AbiWord's CVS under the module "uspell")
- Hspell (Hebrew)
- AppleSpell ( Mac OS X)
- Voikko (Finnish)
- Zemberek (Turkish)
- Forward and backward search to switch between the sources and the PDF
LaTeXila and gedit rely on the gspell library, which acts as a wrapper around enchant.
Enchant is currently licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), with an additional permission notice saying that any plugin backend can be loaded and used by Enchant. This ensures that it can use the native spell checkers on various platforms (Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Amazon Kindle, etc.), and users can use their favorite third-party product to do the job.
Enchant is an American progressive rock band, formed in 1989. Their music is characterized by ambitious lyrics and melodies along with harmonic experimentation.
Enchant is the debut studio album by Emilie Autumn, originally released on February 26, 2003, by Traitor Records and re-released on August 17, 2007 by Trisol Music Group GmbH. The original release included the Enchant Puzzle (see Enchant Puzzle subheading).
There wasn't an official single released for Enchant, although "Chambermaid" was considered the album's only single. The Chambermaid EP was released before Enchant. The song "Castle Down" was featured on the " By the Sword" single.
Usage examples of "enchant".
My nurse said the Alaunt were a pack of enchanted hounds who hunted down humans.
Riviere enchanted me, but I should have esteemed myself wanting in gratitude and respect to this worthy family if I had darted at her a single amorous glance, or if I had let her suspect my feelings for her by a single word.
The enchanted steel killed where it struck, slicing arachnid flesh easily, but there were thousands of them.
And then she, by virtue of whose sorceries this whole land is drugged and enchanted, is such a bold slut that she will build a Sacred Arbour even, and will fill it full of religious enchantment for you rather than lose hold of you.
But to Bibbs, who had now to go to the very heart of it, for a commanded interview with his father, the distant cloud was like an implacable genius issuing thunderously in smoke from his enchanted bottle, and irresistibly drawing Bibbs nearer and nearer.
Our travellers might, in another mood and place, have thought it droll to arrive at that sublime spectacle through a Bierhaus, but in this enchanted city it seemed to have a peculiar fitness.
Then she pokes the fire, draws a little buhl table close up to the hearth, spreads a white cloth, sets out the plates, puts the spoons by them, and enchanted, impatient, with flushed complexion, leans back in an armchair.
In a matter of minutes she had lost all the beauty and inno- cence that had enchanted me.
Certain of her power, She had laid by, in fond security, The enchanted cestus, and Sir Tannhauser, With surfeited regard, beheld her now, No fairer than the women of the earth, Whom with serenity and health he left, Duped by a lovely witch.
When the Enchanted Globe reached the platform at the top, the whole band joined the cimbalom to blare a rousing climax and bring the audience out of its stupefaction to a clamor of applause.
This demon would be able to enchant a serpent, thought, remembering that same smile when he was reflected in the cinematographic screens and he increased the temperature of all the feminine public.
I asked her to come and sit on my bed, but she answered that she could not take such a liberty now that she was dressed, The simplicity, artlessness, and innocence of the answer seemed to me very enchanting, and brought a smile on my lips.
What a delightful picture I could offer to my readers if it were possible for me to paint voluptuousnes in its most enchanting colours!
I was enchanted, for I was now in a fair way, and I saw the moment of bliss in the distance, feeling certain that I could effect a cure if the doctor was not mistaken.
Meure talked so brilliantly and sensibly to her intended that one could easily see he was enchanted with her.