excantation
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin excantare (“to charm out”).
Noun edit
excantation (countable and uncountable, plural excantations)
- (obsolete) Disenchantment by a countercharm.
- 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
- […] his Cage, out of which, there was no possibility of getting, but by the power of a higher excantation
References edit
“excantation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.