INCANTATION in a Sentence
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Example sentences for INCANTATION, such as:
1. After the morning's incantations Colin sometimes gave them Magic lectures.
2. Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
3. The idea that we simply manufacture promissory obligations by speaking them, like an incantation, is decidedly mysterious.
4. By incantation and prayer, the medicine man sought to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of the young warrior.
2. Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
3. The idea that we simply manufacture promissory obligations by speaking them, like an incantation, is decidedly mysterious.
4. By incantation and prayer, the medicine man sought to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of the young warrior.
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Meanings and Examples of INCANTATION
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incantation
n. a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect
Classic Sentence:
1 So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
2 Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.
3 Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
4 His religion was nature-worship, with profound belief in invisible surrounding influences, good and bad, and his worship was through incantation and sacrifice.
5 After the morning's incantations Colin sometimes gave them Magic lectures.
6 They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away.
7 They all pounded the floor of the barn in old-fashioned square dances, swinging their partners, skipping, laughing, under the incantations of Del Snafflin the barber, who fiddled and called the figures.
Example Sentence:
1 By incantation and prayer, the medicine man sought to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of the young warrior.
2 The idea that we simply manufacture promissory obligations by speaking them, like an incantation, is decidedly mysterious.