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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cast a spell over; bewitch.
  2. v. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To practise sorcery or witchcraft on; subdue by charms or spells; hold as by a spell; bewitch.
  2. To impart a magical quality or effect to; change the nature of by incantation or sorcery; bewitch, as a thing.
  3. To delight in a high degree; charm; fascinate.
  4. Synonyms Enchant, Charm, Fascinate, captivate, enrapture, carry away. To fascinate is to bring under a spell, as by the power of the eye; to enchant and to charm are to bring under a spell by some more subtle and mysterious power. This difference in the literal affects also the figurative senses. Enchant is stronger than charm. All generally imply a pleased state in that which is affected, but fascinate less often than the others.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To attract and delight, to charm.
  2. v. archaic To cast a spell over.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
  2. v. To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. attract; cause to be enamored
  2. v. hold spellbound
  3. v. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Etymologies

  1. From French enchanter, from Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enchanten, from Old French enchanter, from Latin incantāre, to utter an incantation, cast a spell : in-, against; see en-1 + cantāre, to sing, frequentative of canere; see kan- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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