incantatory
kænˈteɪ noun
1.
the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
2.
the formula employed; a spell or charm.
3.
magical ceremonies.
4.
magic; sorcery.
5.
repetitious wordiness used to conceal a lack of content; obfuscation: Her prose too often resorts to incantation.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | ritual recitation of magic words or sounds |
| 2. | the formulaic words or sounds used; a magic spell |
| [C14: from Late Latin incantātiō an enchanting, from incantāre to repeat magic formulas, from Latin, from | |
| incan'tational | |
| —adj | |
| incantatory (ɪnˈkæntətrɪ) | |
| —adj | |
| relating to or having the characteristics of an incantation | |
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Word Origin & History
incantation
late 14c., from O.Fr. incantation (13c.), from L. incantationem (nom. incantatio) "art of enchanting," from incantus, pp. of incantare "bewitch, charm," lit. "sing spells" (see enchantment).
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Slang Dictionary
incantation
n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be learned from a wizard. "This compiler normally locates initialized data in the data segment, but if you mutter the right incantation they will be forced into text space."spell
n. Syn. {incantation}.
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