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n. (plural of incantation English)
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Incantations is the fourth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in late 1978 on Virgin Records.
The first Oldfield to be divided into more than two movements, it is the second longest album Oldfield has ever released (the longest being Light + Shade). Originally released as a double album, the current CD issue fits the entire album onto one disc.
Incantations for Percussion and Orchestra is a concerto for percussion and orchestra in three movements by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. The work was composed for the percussionist Colin Currie on a joint commission from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. The first performance was given in Royal Festival Hall, London by Currie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin on October 24, 2009.
Usage examples of "incantations".
Shadowood proper, and if anyone of unendowed blood or without the benefit of time enchantments enters this tunnel, they are recognized by the incantations we left behind, and immediately killed.
Or the third, most likely possibility: Failee will have mishandled the incantations, improperly joined the two sides of the craft, and the world will have ceased to exist.
I was forced to develop the incantations that prevent the Minions from inbreeding.
Paragon, to help her, but even my strongest healing incantations were not enough.
Mouths murmured incantations in unison, hands shaped spells, and the Dwaer sang.
He was used to repeating incantations precisely, though the sounds meant nothing to him.
He cleaned the athame he used for private incantations by running his left thumb and forefinger over the blade of walrus ivory.
With incantations and sorcery and his own blood he materialized me in the flesh of his own planet.
His mistress must have finished her incantations in her nearby spellcasting chamber.
After feasting on roasted rabbit, Evaine took out her spellbook, committing a few magical incantations to memory, for each time she used a spell it was forgotten, and she was obliged to study it anew.
Priests have power to focus their magic through prayer, their incantations are a form of prayer.
Blaskyn had done well, showing promise in devising his own incantations and adding his own twists.
This new talent from out of nowhere was not telepathy, but a feeling for the lightness of things: somehow he knew the sorcerer improvised his incantations as he went along and never came out with the exact same result twice in a row.
She, like many of her her kinfolk and neighbors, feared the presence of demons and spirits, and she constantly ran to the three hags of the forest for remedial incantations and mystic amulets.
The believers wrote the incantations in blessed words on tiny slips of paper and placed them in tiny, primitively carved amulets of oak and pine.