Incantate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Incantate is a verb meaning (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.
Meaning
(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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- incantates
- incantating
- incantated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include invoke, bespell, bewitch, intonate, reenchant, conjure.
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