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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of incant.

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Examples

  • Once the pilgrims have ritually cleansed and incanted, they circle the cage counterclockwise, reaching over each other to feel its metal lattice and lunging forward to let their lips linger on the Arabic lettering at its corners.

    Among the Mullahs 2010

  • Once the pilgrims have ritually cleansed and incanted, they circle the cage counterclockwise, reaching over each other to feel its metal lattice and lunging forward to let their lips linger on the Arabic lettering at its corners.

    Among the Mullahs 2010

  • In a deft reengineering of the Scheherazade legend, Rushdie makes several of his femmes fatales into conjured or perhaps better say incanted figures: seductresses of the imagination who nonetheless exert tremendous power in the “real” world; women of mystical and mythical authority who are projected along the song lines.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • In a deft reengineering of the Scheherazade legend, Rushdie makes several of his femmes fatales into conjured or perhaps better say incanted figures: seductresses of the imagination who nonetheless exert tremendous power in the “real” world; women of mystical and mythical authority who are projected along the song lines.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • In a deft reengineering of the Scheherazade legend, Rushdie makes several of his femmes fatales into conjured or perhaps better say incanted figures: seductresses of the imagination who nonetheless exert tremendous power in the “real” world; women of mystical and mythical authority who are projected along the song lines.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • “Our answer is market, market—let the market forces work,” he incanted.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • “Our answer is market, market—let the market forces work,” he incanted.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Seventh terror incanted them from my mind, but I inactivate the last one, which I sapped, was: Where have you been?

    Think Progress » More Revisionist History 2005

  • Marines incanted Ground Zero in a seven - year-old civil war, were killed by a truck bomber as they slept.

    CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2002 2002

  • He was muttering to himself, his fingers writhing in quick passes as he incanted.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

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