Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To chant or intone (ritual or magic words).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To state solemnly, to chant.
- verb To recite an
incantation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word incant.
Examples
-
Instead, Ray Wilkins, previously a likable part-timer, has been given free rein to incant his belief in "staying on your feet", while Redknapp continues to fidget and ramble, occasionally sparkling with accidental insight like some tousled piano-playing man‑child genius.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011
-
But learning to speak American involves something more than that it's knowing how to incant them too.
-
I got the feeling that I was supposed to clap my hands and incant three times, "I do believe in the Constitution -- I do, I do, I do believe in the Constitution."
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker 2010
-
I got the feeling that I was supposed to clap my hands and incant three times, "I do believe in the Constitution -- I do, I do, I do believe in the Constitution."
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker 2010
-
Magic is not a favourite of mine in urban fantasy, and by ‘magic’ I mean those who wiggle their fingers, incant something, and … well, ‘magic happens’.
[REVIEW] Blue Is for Nightmares – Laurie Faria Stolarz « Urban Fantasy Land 2008
-
I got the feeling that I was supposed to clap my hands and incant three times, "I do believe in the Constitution -- I do, I do, I do believe in the Constitution."
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker 2010
-
I got the feeling that I was supposed to clap my hands and incant three times, "I do believe in the Constitution -- I do, I do, I do believe in the Constitution."
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker 2010
-
With Lindburg-esque gusto you shall throw yourself upon this pile of sizzling meat like a feral child raised by wolverines and Liberals and you shall also smoke ten unfiltered cigarettes back to back in a plume of nicotine and fatty meat that shall incant the spirit of the late Orson Welles.
The Outback Steakhouse Is The Greatest Place On The Face Of The Earth | Manolith 2010
-
In the next phrase he praised God as "compassionate and merciful," the words religious Muslims incant regularly as they pray.
-
A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!'"
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.