enchant

verb
/ɪnˈt͡ʃænt/US/ɪnˈt͡ʃant//ɪnˈt͡ʃɑːnt/UK/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃænt/US/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃɑːnt/UK

Etymology

From Middle English enchaunten, from Old French enchanter, from Latin incantāre. Doublet of incant.

  1. derived from incantō
  2. derived from enchanter
  3. inherited from enchaunten

Definitions

  1. To attract and delight, to charm.

  2. To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms).

    • 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.
  3. To magically enhance or degrade an item.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. An enchantment

      • The top button is an enchant you can get with 1 lapis, the middle will need 2 lapis, and the bottom will need 3. In addition to lapis, you will need to have a certain number of experience points to get an enchant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enchant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at enchant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at enchant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA