incantatory

Adjective

incantatory (comparative more incantatory, superlative most incantatory)

1. Constituting, employing, dealing with, or suitable for use in incantation.
   • Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors, though commonly men of inferiour rank, and from whom without illumination they can expect no more then from themselves, do daily and professedly delude them.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9
   • A trained musician might protest against so strange a manner of ringing the chimes; but he could not possibly deny that it has impressiveness: it is wild, barbaric, incantatory—it is a monstrous musical conjuration.1888, Lafcadio Hearn, “A Midsummer Trip to the West Indies,” Second Paper, XIII, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 77, Number 459, August 1888, p. 332
2. Resembling incantation.
   • The film's most persistent (and pernicious) image is of a train, clanking and rambling down a track. Again and again and again, down the track to Auschwitz. It is incantatory; the trains exude evil, huff and grind down the track, very slowly.1986 February 1, Robin Lippincott, “Shoah (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 15