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(ambitransitive) To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results..
Your modern witch never incantates in public.
Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.
In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.
Use incantate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Incantate means (ambitransitive) To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Your modern witch never incantates in public.
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