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- noun Obsolete form of
enchantment .
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Examples
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That which is forbidden in the scriptures touching inchantment or witch craft, is not the wonderfull working with words.
Some Meme or Other 2008
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That which is forbidden in the scriptures touching inchantment or witch craft, is not the wonderfull working with words.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The whole world cannot parallel it; and I am astonished to see it standing entire, like the effects of inchantment, after such a succession of ages, every one more barbarous than another.
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The riuer Nilus is a mile broad, wherein are very many great Croccodiles from Cairo vpward, but lower than Cairo passeth no such creature: and this, they say, is by reason of an inchantment made long since which hindereth their passage for comming any lower then Cairo.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Alice Kettle, whome the Bishop ascited to purge hir selfe of the fame of inchantment and witchcraft imposed unto hir, and to one
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As we passed on it seemed as if those seens of visionary inchantment would never have and end; for here it is too that nature presents to the view of the traveler vast ranges of walls of tolerable workmanship, so perfect indeed are those walls that I should have thought that nature had attempted here to rival the human art of masonry had I not recollected that she had first began her work.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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I hope, that by breaking the inchantment that tied Mr. Arnold's heart, and blinded his understanding, he may be induced to do justice to his injured lady and her family.
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That even in this case, he is said to give only inchantment against one kind of mettle, and this does not save life; for the lead would not take Sharp and Claverhouse's life, yet steel and silver could do it: and for Dalziel, though he died not on the field, he did not escape the arrows of the Almighty.
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To spell is from syllaba; but spell, an inchantment, by which it is believed that the boundaries are so fixed in lands that none can pass them against the master's will, from expello; and spell, a messenger, from epistola; whence gospel, good-spell, or god-spell.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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But they pretend to the knowledge of secrets, that, by way of inchantment (sic), give them the entire empire over whom they please.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724
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