Incantatory
adj ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Constituting, employing, dealing with, or suitable for use in incantation.
"Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors, though commonly men of inferiour rank, and from whom without illumination they can expect no more then from themselves, do daily and professedly delude them."
- 2 Resembling incantation.
"The film's most persistent (and pernicious) image is of a train, clanking and rambling down a track. Again and again and again, down the track to Auschwitz. It is incantatory; the trains exude evil, huff and grind down the track, very slowly."
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More examples"Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors, though commonly men of inferiour rank, and from whom without illumination they can expect no more then from themselves, do daily and professedly delude them."
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