English
enchanter
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/, /ənˈtʃɑːntə/, /ɛnˈtʃɑːntə/
  • (GA) IPA: /ɪnˈtʃæntɚ/, /ənˈtʃæntɚ/, /ɛnˈtʃæntɚ/
Noun
  1. One who enchants or delights.
    • 1991, "Critics' Voices" in Time, 11 February, 1991, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972291,00.html]
      Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
  2. A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
      No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XI, Chapter VIII,
      He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind", lines 2-3,
      Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,
      […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
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