enchanter (s.xii1/3)

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

enchanter (s.xii1/3)

[ FEW: 4,618a incantare; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,450b enchanter; TL: 3,185 enchanter; DEAF: ; DMF:  enchanter; TLF:  enchanter; OED:  enchant v.; MED:  enchaunten v.; DMLBS: 1286b incantare ]
enchaunter,  encanter,  anchanter  89 encantereir  25.101  

v.a.

1also_fig.to bewitch, cast a spell on
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Enchanteurs, par lur reisuns, Issi enchantent les draguns, Que il les funt ben endormir  229.760
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  gent Ki funt enchantement, Ki.l volent encanter, Prendre e enginner [...]  1621
to bewitch, dupe
( c.1185 )  Candace [...] Son baron ad si enchanté, Tot l’ad en altre sens turné  2075
to charm into, to persuade by using charm
( c.1185 )  Melander s’en turne vers sa ante; Tant la requert e tant l’enchante Qu’el li ad le cungé doné  2838
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Lors prist corrumpre e enchanter Par molt doner [...] Un serf qui soi dut entremettre De la mortale traison  8648
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  Tant le truilla, tant le charma (var. (D: 1272-82) Taunt l'enqoilla, tant l'enchanta ) Ke li lecheres s’en ala  1113 (var. D)
( MS: c.1330 )  Ja ne dirra a uncle ne aunte, Mes par douçour li (=her wayward husband) enchaunte De mal lesser  108.8
2to conjure up
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Les debles d’enfern ad enchantez. Ceus i v[i]ndrent ignelepas  1672

p.p._as_a.

1enchanted, bewitched
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  quels oem [...] vos crereit Sanz iço q’il ne fust enchanté?  2221

p.pr._as_s.

1enchanter, charmer
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  surd serpent [...] Laquele nen orrat la voiz des encantanz  75.57.6
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
enchanter