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ng enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." Burke.

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [Written also cantraip.] [Scot.]

or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak.

oking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment. Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event. Hallam.

Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

d of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

y of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. An appearance made by some magic. Chaucer. Celestial magic, a supposed supernatural power which gave to spirits a kind of dominion over the planets, and to the planets an influence over men. -- Natural magic, th…

A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm. Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful. Shak.

Of or pertaining to theurgy; magical. Theurgic hymns, songs of incantation.

Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

Myself too had weird seizures. Tennyson. Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. Longfellow. Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] G. Douglas.