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verb

Enchant v. t. (past & past part. enchanted; pres. part. enchanting)

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." "He is enchanted, cannot speak."

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."

Synonyms: To charm; bewitch; fascinate. Cf. Charm.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enchant" Quotes from Famous Books

... see? What heavenly face Doth, in this magic glass, enchant me! O love, in mercy, now, thy swiftest pinions grant me! And bear me to her field of space! Ah, if I seek to approach what doth so haunt me, If from this spot I dare to stir, Dimly as through a mist I gaze ...

— Faust • Goethe

... trimming or bottom of her dress; when, as invariably as he chose to play the trick, poor Miss Stephens used to begin to twitch and catch at her petticoat, and half hysterical, between laughing and crying, would enchant and entrance her listeners with her exquisite voice and pathetic rendering of "Savourneen Deelish" or "The ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... 'extraordinary,' adding that 'between her [Miss Barrett's] poems and the slighter lyrics of most of the sisterhood, there is all the difference which exists between the putting-on of "singing robes" for altar service, and the taking up lute or harp to enchant an indulgent circle of friends and kindred.' In the 'Examiner,'[101] John Forster declared that 'Miss Barrett is an undoubted poetess of a high and fine order as regards the first requisites of her art—imagination and expression.... She is a most remarkable ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... Congee; 't shalbe thus, no thus; That writhing of my body does become me Infinitly. Now to begett an active Complement that, like a matins sung By virgins, may enchant her amorous ear. The Spanish Basolas[63] manos sounds, methinks, As harsh as a Morisco kettledrum; The French boniour is ordinary as their Disease: hees not a gent that cannot parlee. I must invent some new ...

— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various

... and the rose, back of the landscape, back of all beautiful things that enchant us, there must be a great lover of the beautiful and a great beauty-principle. Every star that twinkles in the sky, every flower, bids us look behind it for its source, points us to the great Author ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

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