to incant

Examples

• All

• Incants him to climax with Celtic words.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Sounds of lovemaking and an Indian peyote ceremony from the track, an Indian holy man incanting...

  Fiction book (1991)

• - I must incant six names of power.

  Nightmare Sisters (1988)

• After I eat this monk no one will incant to bother you

  The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (2022)

• She timidly begins to incant.

  Fiction book (1995)

• He had spent long hours incanting and spellcasting.

  Fiction book (1998)

• "She incanted her pain in the formula: "Come to thy house, come to thy house, thou pillar!"

  Academic text (1996)

• He raised his hands together, holding them above his head and then in front of his chest and incanted: we are secured by the mother and the mother is Nut, the one in the sky, the mother in the sky.

  Academic text (2010)

• I bill myself as a widow; I refer to Max as my dearly departed. I incant 'may he rest in peace' because this is one of those cases when a falsehood embodies a greater truth.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The wizard began to incant ancient words to summon the spirits.

Synonyms

C

to chant

vsto incant

178 4.4

To sing or say the same words again and again with a steady beat, often with others

is used in focused spells or private rituals rather than group repetition

C

to cantillate

vsto incant

• Specialized

9.9

To sing or say words in a chant, often prayers

is used for words in spells or rituals rather than sacred prayer

How Ritualistic

to incant

• Literature

1 9.4

to chant

178 4.4

to intone

3 7.2

to recite

86 3.5

to murmur

11 4.2

mutter

18 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology