Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that delights or fascinates.
  • noun A sorcerer or magician.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who enchants or practises enchantment; a sorcerer or magician.
  • noun One who charms or delights.

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

  • noun One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
  • noun (Bot.) a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who enchants.
  • noun A warlock or sorcerer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sorcerer or magician

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Examples

  • Then, when Dacian the provost saw that he might not surmount him, he called his enchanter and said to him: I see that these christian people doubt not our torments.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • We remained, therefore, in a kind of enchanter's circle until nomination-day was over.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • We remained, therefore, in a kind of enchanter's circle until nomination-day was over.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Bogle being a witch who was trying to 'enchanter' her, as her dear

    Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • This is not so remarkable as it seems, for, in justice to the Enchanted Island, it should be stated that its resemblance to portions of the neighboring land is sometimes very close, and shows that the "enchanter" who has it under a spell knows his business, and being determined to keep his island for himself changes its appearance as well as its location in order that his property may not be recognized nor appropriated.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • Not the knowledge which is required in any particular art; nor again the art of the composer of speeches, who knows how to write them, but cannot speak them, although he too must be admitted to be a kind of enchanter of wild animals.

    Euthydemus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye.

    Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

  • They are based around Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter, and often set in his castle where a sort of school for enchanters exists long, mind you, before Hogwarts existed.

    Monica Edinger: Diana Wynne Jones: An Appreciation Monica Edinger 2011

  • They are based around Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter, and often set in his castle where a sort of school for enchanters exists long, mind you, before Hogwarts existed.

    Monica Edinger: Diana Wynne Jones: An Appreciation Monica Edinger 2011

  • Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye.

    Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

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