Incantator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Incantator is a noun meaning One who works magic by means of incantation.
Meaning
One who works magic by means of incantation.
Example Sentences
We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?
Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.
It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.
In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.
Word Forms
- incantators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include incantationist, incantor, incanter, invoker, conjurer, bewitcher.
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