Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enchant.
  • adjective Charmed, delighted, enraptured.
  • adjective Under the influence of enchantment.

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  • adjective influenced as by charms or incantations

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Examples

  • Angela Missoni, who took over the design reins in 1996, was inspired by what she called "enchanted and enchanting fairies" who appear "very real" thanks to human ingenuity with volume, cut, fabric, yarns and accessories.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Angela Missoni, who took over the design reins in 1996, was inspired by what she called "enchanted and enchanting fairies" who appear "very real" thanks to human ingenuity with volume, cut, fabric, yarns and accessories.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • I doubt it, but I’ll always endeavor to remain enchanted and enchanting.

    Interview with Keith Donohue 2010

  • Badlat Kunúzíyah = such a dress as would be found in enchanted hoards (Kunúz):. g.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The charmed sword and blessed banner, which she had represented as signs of her celestial mission, were in this hostile charge against her described as enchanted implements, designed by the fiends and fairies whom she worshipped to accomplish her temporary success.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • Love for you invested the world for me in enchanted light; it was no longer the earth I trod -- the earth, common mother, yielding only trite and stale repetition of objects and circumstances old and worn out.

    I.9 1826

  • The charmed sword and blessed banner, which she had represented as signs of her celestial mission, were in this hostile charge against her described as enchanted implements, designed by the fiends and fairies whom she worshipped to accomplish her temporary success.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • Nonetheless, it is human nature to get "enchanted" - to think that something or someone is going to help us transcend the flawed and crooked, and reach new heights.

    StickyFigure 2009

  • (a) One: priest says he eats one demon a day; one whip to winged horse is enough, more destroys his virtue; one dip in enchanted tank restores beauty.

    Tales of the Punjab 1894

  • One of my favorite parts of last night's press conference was when the President answered Jeff Zeleny's question about what things had surprised, enchanted, humbled, and troubled him the most over the course of the past hundred days, a question that wasn't as trivial as Zeleny's unfortunate choice of the word enchanted made it sound.

    When oh when did we ever have a better press corps? 2009

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