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verb

Charm v. t. (past & past part. charmed; pres. part. charming)

1.

To make music upon; to tune. (Obs. & R.) "Here we our slender pipes may safely charm."

2.

To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. "No witchcraft charm thee!"

3.

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. "Music the fiercest grief can charm."

4.

To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. "They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear."

5.

To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. "I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death."

Synonyms: Syn. - To fascinate; enchant; enrapture; captivate; bewitch; allure; subdue; delight; entice; transport.

Charm v. i.

1.

To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms. "The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely."

2.

To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

3.

To make a musical sound. (Obs.)

adjective

Charming adj. Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. "How charming is divine philosophy."

Synonyms: Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning.

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Etymology of 'Charming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Charming" Quotes from Famous Books

... new intelligence and vain preoccupation damaged my liking. I not only failed to run a general intention to earth, I found myself missing the subordinate intentions I had formerly enjoyed. His books didn't even remain the charming things they had been for me; the exasperation of my search put me out of conceit of them. Instead of being a pleasure the more they became a resource the less; for from the moment I was unable to follow up the ...

— The Figure in the Carpet • Henry James

... we begin the play, let us read the charming tale written by Charles and Mary Lamb. It will give us briefly the story of The Tempest, though a wealth ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

... to be handed down from mouth to mouth in the same way as ballads, can be assigned neither to any single author nor to any precise year or even decade of composition. But the charming examples which I have picked out from a number transcribed by Professor Fluegel from a Balliol College manuscript of the middle of the sixteenth century, may all safely be attributed to a date earlier than 1500, though perhaps not very much earlier, and in their simple tenderness and ...

— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

... he took her to the Eldorado and persuaded her to drink champagne, thinking this would forward his purpose. The wine made her rosy and pretty, and it also made her forget her poses and affectations. She was more charming to him than ever before, partly because of the change in her, and partly because his own critical faculties were blunted by alcohol. He was almost in love with her and he felt sure that he was about to win her. But presently she began wheedling him in the old vein. She wanted him to take her ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... Musquetors in this lower portion of the river, as we were above the river plat and as high up as the Rochejhone and for a fiew miles up that river, and above its enterance into the Missouri. we passd Some of the most Charming bottom lands to day and the uplands by no means bad, all well timberd. the weather disagreeably worm and if it was not for the constant winds which blow from the S. and S E. we Should be almost Suficated Comeing out of a northern Country open and Cool between ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

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