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  • noun Plural form of enchantment.

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Examples

  • Even mages are proficient with cloth armor, which though it doesn’t give an armor bonus, can be made of special materials or gain enchantments that do.

    4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related 2008

  • With that, the last kind of skills are called environments, or the "enchantments".

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2004

  • It should seem that, by some kind of enchantments, they had thrown him into a delirium so far, that he had forgot both himself and the sabbath-day.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • They had time after the summons to make suitable preparations -- and so it appears they succeeded by their "enchantments" in practising an illusion on the senses.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • And what we want in practical philosophy when it comes to this, is a new kind of enchantments, with capacities large enough to swallow up these, as the rod of Moses swallowed up the rods of the Egyptians.

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • The word which our version renders by '"enchantments"' signifies

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 07 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command.

    Chapter 21 2010

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