English

Verb

incantate ‎(third-person singular simple present incantates, present participle incantating, simple past and past participle incantated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
   • 1969, Curtis Publishing Company, Status, Issues 218-227

     Your modern witch never incantates in public.

   • 1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

     Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.

   • 2010, S. Giora Shoham, To Test the Limits of Our Endurance

     In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.

Related terms

• incantation

Italian

Verb

incantate

1. second-person plural present indicative of incantare
2. second-person plural imperative of incantare
3. feminine plural of incantato

Anagrams

• centinata

Latin

Verb

incantāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incantō