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incantational

incantational adjective: relating to incantation.

Adjective

incantational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to incantation.
    • Names […] do make a surprisingly meaningful difference. The power of words is mystical, magical, incantational. The child learns "dirty" words because they have amazing properties — they can move adults to prompt and sometimes startling actions.1979 August 25, Nancy Walker, “Sothers and Others”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 11
    • Some hint of the mantic/incantational subtext of Baal's speech to Anat may be found in a badly damaged and very difficult tablet, RS 92.2016 (Caquot and Dalix 2001:393–405).1994, Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, page 232

Origin of incantational

From incantation + -al.

Questions about incantational

What does incantational mean?
Incantational means relating to incantation.
What part of speech is incantational?
Incantational is an adjective.

Words near incantational in the dictionary

  1. incantate
  2. incantated
  3. incantates
  4. incantating
  5. incantation
  6. incantational
  7. incantationism
  8. incantationist
  9. incantationists
  10. incantations
  11. incantator

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