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enchant
English
Alternative forms
- enchaunt, inchant, inchaunt (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English enchaunten, from Old French enchanter, from Latin incant?re, present active infinitive of incant?.Doublet of incant.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?t?ænt/, /?n?t?ænt/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?n?t?ant/, /?n?t?ant/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?t???nt/, /?n?t???nt/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?n?t???nt/, /en?t???nt/
- Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt
Verb
enchant (third-person singular simple present enchants, present participle enchanting, simple past and past participle enchanted)
- To attract and delight, to charm.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms).
- 2009, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, ?ISBN, page 241
- With the aid of his eponymous pipes, a satyr is capable of weaving a wide variety of melodic spells designed to enchant others and bring them in line with his capricious desires.
- 2009, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, ?ISBN, page 241
- (role-playing games) To magically enhance or degrade an item.
Conjugation
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Anagrams
- Nechtan
Middle English
Verb
enchant
- Alternative form of enchaunten
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engross
English
Etymology
From Middle English engrossen, from Anglo-Norman engrosser (“to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form”); partly from the phrase en gros (“in bulk, in quantity, at wholesale”), from en- + gros; and partly from Medieval Latin ingross? (“thicken, write something large and in bold lettering”, v.), from in- + grossus (“great, big, thick”), from Old High German gr?z (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrew?- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). More at in-, gross.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?????s/, /???????s/, /?n?????s/, /???????s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?????s/, /???????s/, /?n???o?s/, /?????o?s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Verb
engross (third-person singular simple present engrosses, present participle engrossing, simple past and past participle engrossed)
- (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
- Coordinate term: longhand
- 1846, Thomas De Quincey, “On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine:
- laws that may be engrossed upon a finger nail
- (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
- Synonym: corner the market
- (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
- (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
- Synonyms: inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
- (transitive, obsolete) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
- (obsolete) To amass.
- Synonyms: amound, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
Derived terms
- engrossing
Related terms
- gross
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “engross”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- engrossing (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gersons, Gonsers, Songers, grossen, songers
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