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Webster 1913 Edition

Enchanter

En-chant′er

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
enchanteur
.]
One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
Like ghosts from an
enchanter
fleeing.
Shelley.
Enchanter’s nightshade
(Bot.)
,
a genus (
Circæa
) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.

Webster 1828 Edition

Enchanter

ENCH`ANTER

,
Noun.
One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who has spirits or demons at his command; one who practices enchantment, or pretends to perform surprising things by the agency of demons.
1.
One who charms or delights.
Enchanter's nightshade, a genus of plants, the Circaea.

Definition 2024

enchanter

enchanter

English

Alternative forms

Noun

enchanter ‎(plural enchanters, feminine enchantress)

  1. One who enchants.
    • 1991, "Critics' Voices" in Time, 11 February, 1991,
      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 warlock or sorcerer.
    • 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, section 38,
      But lat us go now to thilke horrible sweryng of adjuracioun and conjuracioun, as doon thise false enchauntours or nigromanciens in bacyns ful of water, or in a bright swerd, in a cercle, or in a fir, or in a shulderboon of a sheep.
    • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō.

Pronunciation

Verb

enchanter

  1. (transitive) to enchant

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō, from cantus ‎(“song; chant”). Compare chant, chanter, etc.

Verb

enchanter

  1. to enchant (to put under the power of an enchantment)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of enchanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive enchanter avoir enchanté
gerund en enchantant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle enchantant
past participle enchanté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present enchant enchantes enchante enchantons enchantez enchantent
imperfect enchantoie, enchanteie, enchantoe, enchanteve enchantoies, enchanteies, enchantoes, enchanteves enchantoit, enchanteit, enchantot, enchanteve enchantiiens, enchantiens enchantiiez, enchantiez enchantoient, enchanteient, enchantoent, enchantevent
preterite enchantai enchantas enchanta enchantames enchantastes enchanterent
future enchanterai enchanteras enchantera enchanterons enchanteroiz, enchantereiz, enchanterez enchanteront
conditional enchanteroie, enchantereie enchanteroies, enchantereies enchanteroit, enchantereit enchanteriiens, enchanteriens enchanteriiez, enchanteriez enchanteroient, enchantereient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present enchant enchanz enchant enchantons enchantez enchantent
imperfect enchantasse enchantasses enchantast enchantissons, enchantissiens enchantissoiz, enchantissez, enchantissiez enchantassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— enchante — enchantons enchantez —

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology

From Old French enchanteor.

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