incant
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Etymology edit
From Latin incantō. Doublet of enchant.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
incant (third-person singular simple present incants, present participle incanting, simple past and past participle incanted)
- (rare) To state solemnly, to chant.
- To recite an incantation.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 378:
- They now remember a tall man wrapped in a cloak [...] incanting to himself as he crossed the road.
- 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- “Did you speak, child?” she whispered, as if she was a witch incanting a spell.