Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dealing by enchantment; practised in incantation; magical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dealing by enchantment; magical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective constituting, employing, dealing with, or suitable for use in
incantation
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Examples
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What some readers will call incantatory began to feel, at times, somewhat repetitive, making me appreciate those moments when a more colloquial voice, usually another speaker, was introduced in a poem, as in "An Idea of Return."
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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Even for us, 'playing' with "Onyx" -- watching scenes unfold, linking strands of narrative differently each time -- has a kind of incantatory quality.
Gail Freedman and Larry Atlas: Browseable Video Story-Worlds: The Future of Film? 2008
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And they have a kind of incantatory, repetitive but -- but incantatory eloquence that is much more apparent, and even the meanings, I think, more apparent if you read it aloud.
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Through a kind of incantatory or sacrificial rite, they try to call up and reinstate the tropes, schemas or words which to them distinguish professorial language.
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Consider my exercise some kind of incantatory ritual -- a talisman -- meant to hold off the bad spirits just as, when I arrive in Beijing in winter and find the mercury near zero (an increasing rarity these last years) or stumble into a snowstorm in New York City, I’m relieved.
Orville Schell: The Melting of America: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation 2010
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The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.
John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine John Lundberg 2011
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The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.
John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine John Lundberg 2011
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The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.
John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine John Lundberg 2011
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The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.
John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine John Lundberg 2011
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The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.
John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine John Lundberg 2011
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