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incantator

incantator noun: one who works magic by means of incantation.

Noun

incantator (plural incantators)

  1. One who works magic by means of incantation.
    • We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN
    • In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and...1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs

Examples of incantator in a sentence

  • It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159:
  • Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN:

Forms of incantator

pluralincantators

Origin of incantator

From incantate + -or.

Questions about incantator

What does incantator mean?
Incantator means one who works magic by means of incantation.
How do you use incantator in a sentence?
It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.
What part of speech is incantator?
Incantator is a noun.
What is the plural of incantator?
The plural of incantator is incantators.

Words near incantator in the dictionary

  1. incantational
  2. incantationism
  3. incantationist
  4. incantationists
  5. incantations
  6. incantator
  7. incantators
  8. incantatory
  9. incanted
  10. incanter
  11. incanters

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