Definition of incantation in English:

incantation

noun ɪnkanˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnkænˈteɪʃ(ə)n

1A series of words said as a magic spell or charm.
咒语
an incantation to raise the dead
唤起死者的咒语。
Example sentencesExamples
- The general consensus is to take the word to mean ‘the use of magic potions and charms in incantations and degraded religious practices’.
- Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open.
- Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes.
- He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast.
- This old volume was a Spell Tome, full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms.
- People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on.
- Both were then attached to the nail of the ring finger of a virgin who said a special series of words - an incantation, a spell or a prayer perhaps.
- The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia.
- He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds.
- Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world.
- He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball.
- With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni.
- Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories.
- Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations.
- He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
- But inside, there were all kinds of unbelievable spells, incantations, charms, potion recipes, and information about magic.
- Book III proposes licit remedies against charms and incantations, and considers whether it is true that sorcerers have the power to heal.
- Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell.
- The work is full of magic incantations and spells and is now known to be of European origin.
- Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong.
Synonyms
chant, invocation, conjuration, magic spell, magic formula, rune
abracadabra, open sesame
North American hex, mojo
New Zealand makutu
1. 1.1mass noun The use of words as a magic spell.
  咒语
  there was no magic in such incantation
  施这种咒语没有魔力。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love.
  It will also explore certain formal similarities between the TV series and Burroughs' novels - for instance, the role of refrains, repetition and incantation.
  The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing.
  Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation.
  The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him.
  Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment.
  Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery.
  But the passage also slips towards unreason; it is incantation, not argument.
  Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food.
  Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody.
  More ‘advanced’ magicians have been known to use foreign language incantation in their work, and they can claim to have just as much success as the sigil users.
  Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic?
  Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
  Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis.
  But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions.
  And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second.
  It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip.
  Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management.
  Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation.
  By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority.
  Synonyms
  chanting, intonation, recitation

Derivatives

incantational

adjective

incantatory

adjective

Wells has received insufficient credit as a writer of rhythmic, incantatory prose, long-breath paragraphs to cut against his tight journalistic reportage.
Example sentencesExamples
- For instance, in Ginsberg's Journals for the mid-fifties, his concern to develop long syllabic lines, using the prosaic and the discursive approaches, clearly leads to the incantatory effects of his most celebrated poetry.
- The section's title poem, an incantatory piece, again acknowledges the weight of exchange, although the poem feels buoyant and light; it is a kind of waking song for the narrator's yet-unborn baby.
- With the exception of nine lineated and titled poems spread throughout the text, Spar is a collection of untitled prose poems, giving it the feel of a book-length work as the incantatory intensity of each poem bleeds into the next.
- Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incantatio(n-), from incantare 'chant, bewitch' (see incant).

see enchant, incentive

Definition of incantation in US English:

incantation

nounˌinkanˈtāSH(ə)nˌɪnkænˈteɪʃ(ə)n

1A series of words said as a magic spell or charm.
咒语
an incantation to raise the dead
唤起死者的咒语。
Example sentencesExamples
- The work is full of magic incantations and spells and is now known to be of European origin.
- Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong.
- He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball.
- He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast.
- Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories.
- He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
- Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations.
- The general consensus is to take the word to mean ‘the use of magic potions and charms in incantations and degraded religious practices’.
- He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds.
- Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell.
- Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world.
- With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni.
- Both were then attached to the nail of the ring finger of a virgin who said a special series of words - an incantation, a spell or a prayer perhaps.
- Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open.
- Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes.
- People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on.
- This old volume was a Spell Tome, full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms.
- The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia.
- Book III proposes licit remedies against charms and incantations, and considers whether it is true that sorcerers have the power to heal.
- But inside, there were all kinds of unbelievable spells, incantations, charms, potion recipes, and information about magic.
Synonyms
chant, invocation, conjuration, magic spell, magic formula, rune
1. 1.1 The use of words as a magic spell.
  咒语
  there was no magic in such incantation
  施这种咒语没有魔力。
  incantations of old slogans
  旧口号的施用。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment.
  But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions.
  And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second.
  Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery.
  It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip.
  The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing.
  Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation.
  Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food.
  Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
  Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love.
  Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody.
  The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him.
  Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management.
  It will also explore certain formal similarities between the TV series and Burroughs' novels - for instance, the role of refrains, repetition and incantation.
  By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority.
  Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation.
  But the passage also slips towards unreason; it is incantation, not argument.
  More ‘advanced’ magicians have been known to use foreign language incantation in their work, and they can claim to have just as much success as the sigil users.
  Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis.
  Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic?
  Synonyms
  chanting, intonation, recitation

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incantatio(n-), from incantare ‘chant, bewitch’ (see incant).

单词	incantation
释义	Definition of incantation in English: incantation noun ɪnkanˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnkænˈteɪʃ(ə)n 1A series of words said as a magic spell or charm. 咒语 an incantation to raise the dead 唤起死者的咒语。 Example sentencesExamples The general consensus is to take the word to mean ‘the use of magic potions and charms in incantations and degraded religious practices’. Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open. Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes. He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast. This old volume was a Spell Tome, full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms. People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on. Both were then attached to the nail of the ring finger of a virgin who said a special series of words - an incantation, a spell or a prayer perhaps. The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia. He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds. Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world. He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball. With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni. Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories. Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations. He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail. But inside, there were all kinds of unbelievable spells, incantations, charms, potion recipes, and information about magic. Book III proposes licit remedies against charms and incantations, and considers whether it is true that sorcerers have the power to heal. Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell. The work is full of magic incantations and spells and is now known to be of European origin. Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong. Synonyms chant, invocation, conjuration, magic spell, magic formula, rune abracadabra, open sesame North American hex, mojo New Zealand makutu 1.1mass noun The use of words as a magic spell. 咒语 there was no magic in such incantation 施这种咒语没有魔力。 Example sentencesExamples Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love. It will also explore certain formal similarities between the TV series and Burroughs' novels - for instance, the role of refrains, repetition and incantation. The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing. Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation. The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him. Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment. Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery. But the passage also slips towards unreason; it is incantation, not argument. Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food. Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody. More ‘advanced’ magicians have been known to use foreign language incantation in their work, and they can claim to have just as much success as the sigil users. Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic? Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image. Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis. But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions. And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second. It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip. Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management. Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation. By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority. Synonyms chanting, intonation, recitation Derivatives incantational adjective incantatory adjective Wells has received insufficient credit as a writer of rhythmic, incantatory prose, long-breath paragraphs to cut against his tight journalistic reportage. Example sentencesExamples For instance, in Ginsberg's Journals for the mid-fifties, his concern to develop long syllabic lines, using the prosaic and the discursive approaches, clearly leads to the incantatory effects of his most celebrated poetry. The section's title poem, an incantatory piece, again acknowledges the weight of exchange, although the poem feels buoyant and light; it is a kind of waking song for the narrator's yet-unborn baby. With the exception of nine lineated and titled poems spread throughout the text, Spar is a collection of untitled prose poems, giving it the feel of a book-length work as the incantatory intensity of each poem bleeds into the next. Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incantatio(n-), from incantare 'chant, bewitch' (see incant). see enchant, incentive Definition of incantation in US English: incantation nounˌinkanˈtāSH(ə)nˌɪnkænˈteɪʃ(ə)n 1A series of words said as a magic spell or charm. 咒语 an incantation to raise the dead 唤起死者的咒语。 Example sentencesExamples The work is full of magic incantations and spells and is now known to be of European origin. Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong. He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball. He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast. Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories. He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail. Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations. The general consensus is to take the word to mean ‘the use of magic potions and charms in incantations and degraded religious practices’. He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds. Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell. Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world. With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni. Both were then attached to the nail of the ring finger of a virgin who said a special series of words - an incantation, a spell or a prayer perhaps. Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open. Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes. People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on. This old volume was a Spell Tome, full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms. The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia. Book III proposes licit remedies against charms and incantations, and considers whether it is true that sorcerers have the power to heal. But inside, there were all kinds of unbelievable spells, incantations, charms, potion recipes, and information about magic. Synonyms chant, invocation, conjuration, magic spell, magic formula, rune 1.1 The use of words as a magic spell. 咒语 there was no magic in such incantation 施这种咒语没有魔力。 incantations of old slogans 旧口号的施用。 Example sentencesExamples Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment. But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions. And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second. Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery. It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip. The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing. Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation. Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food. Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image. Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love. Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody. The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him. Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management. It will also explore certain formal similarities between the TV series and Burroughs' novels - for instance, the role of refrains, repetition and incantation. By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority. Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation. But the passage also slips towards unreason; it is incantation, not argument. More ‘advanced’ magicians have been known to use foreign language incantation in their work, and they can claim to have just as much success as the sigil users. Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis. Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic? Synonyms chanting, intonation, recitation Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incantatio(n-), from incantare ‘chant, bewitch’ (see incant).
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