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enchanter

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Etymology edit

From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant +‎ -er.

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Noun edit

enchanter (plural enchanters, feminine enchantress)

  1. One who enchants or delights.
    • 1991 February 11, “Critics' Voices”, in Time:
      Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
  2. A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
      No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI:
      He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
    • 1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:
      [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind‎[1], lines 2–3:
      Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎[2], Part One, Chapter 1:
      […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

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French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French enchanter, probably borrowed from Latin incantāre. Doublet of incanter.

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Verb edit

enchanter

  1. (transitive) to enchant

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Conjugation of enchanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple enchanter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple enchantant
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle enchanté
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present enchante
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchantes
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchante
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchantons
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɔ̃/ 		enchantez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/ 		enchantent
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/
imperfect enchantais
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɛ/ 		enchantais
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɛ/ 		enchantait
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɛ/ 		enchantions
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ 		enchantiez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tje/ 		enchantaient
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɛ/
past historic2 enchantai
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/ 		enchantas
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.ta/ 		enchanta
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.ta/ 		enchantâmes
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tam/ 		enchantâtes
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tat/ 		enchantèrent
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɛʁ/
future enchanterai
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁe/ 		enchanteras
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁa/ 		enchantera
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁa/ 		enchanterons
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ 		enchanterez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁe/ 		enchanteront
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
conditional enchanterais
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɛ/ 		enchanterais
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɛ/ 		enchanterait
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɛ/ 		enchanterions
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		enchanteriez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ 		enchanteraient
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present enchante
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchantes
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchante
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		enchantions
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ 		enchantiez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tje/ 		enchantent
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/
imperfect2 enchantasse
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tas/ 		enchantasses
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tas/ 		enchantât
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.ta/ 		enchantassions
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		enchantassiez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.ta.sje/ 		enchantassent
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — enchante
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t/ 		— enchantons
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.tɔ̃/ 		enchantez
/ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Middle English edit

Noun edit

enchanter

  1. Alternative form of enchauntour

Old French edit

Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō, from cantus (“song; chant”). Compare chant, chanter, etc.

Verb edit

enchanter

  1. to enchant (to put under the power of an enchantment)

Conjugation edit

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of enchanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive enchanter avoir enchanté
gerund en enchantant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle enchantant
past participle enchanté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present enchant enchantes enchante enchantons enchantez enchantent
imperfect enchantoie, enchanteie, enchantoe, enchanteve enchantoies, enchanteies, enchantoes, enchanteves enchantoit, enchanteit, enchantot, enchanteve enchantiiens, enchantiens enchantiiez, enchantiez enchantoient, enchanteient, enchantoent, enchantevent
preterite enchantai enchantas enchanta enchantames enchantastes enchanterent
future enchanterai enchanteras enchantera enchanterons enchanteroiz, enchantereiz, enchanterez enchanteront
conditional enchanteroie, enchantereie enchanteroies, enchantereies enchanteroit, enchantereit enchanteriiens, enchanteriens enchanteriiez, enchanteriez enchanteroient, enchantereient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present enchant enchanz enchant enchantons enchantez enchantent
imperfect enchantasse enchantasses enchantast enchantissons, enchantissiens enchantissoiz, enchantissez, enchantissiez enchantassent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— enchante — enchantons enchantez —

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