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Definition of Incantations
1. incantation [n] - See also: incantation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incantations
Literary usage of Incantations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religions of the Past and Present: A Series of Lectures Delivered by Members by James Alan Montgomery (1918)
"incantations continued, therefore, to form part of the treatment of disease and
... Medical treatment is supplementary to the use of incantations and of the ..."
2. A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a by William Ward (1818)
"The attendants then sprinkle some water in the person's face, repeating incantations,
and in a few minutes the possessed comes to himself, arises, ..."
3. The Pharsalia of Lucan by Lucan (1853)
"Commencing her incantations, she reproaches the attendants of Sextus, 654 666.
By her incantations and magic skill she raises the dead body to life, ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"... derived his System from Pythagoras—practised incantations. ... teach certain
incantations and formularies for those who have been bitten by dogs, ..."
5. A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos:: Including a by William Ward (1818)
"The attendants then sprinkle some water in the person's face, repeating incantations,
and in a few minutes the possessed comes to himself, arises, ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... continue to live in popular memory, although often ;b? words are so old as to
be unintelligible. The Roman«, in the days of Cato, used incantations, ..."
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