(v. t.) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
(v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
(3) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(4) Nor should the seal boat rides, which are every bit as enchanting for adults as they are for children.
(5) "Right now we're enchanted with it, but … talk to us after another year.
(6) Kent provides an attractive landscape, but not outstandingly so; low-lying mists can seem enchanting one moment, threatening the next.
(7) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(8) Marion Cotillard looks amazing in her selection of cocktail shift dresses in Woody Allen's time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris , while Bérénice Bejo, enchants in cloche hats and flapper dresses in silent-era pastiche The Artist .
(9) While the Lego and Hornby train-filled Wonderland was crammed with small boys intent on destruction on the Guardian's visit this week, the Enchanted Forest, with fairy voices emanating from multicoloured flowers and hundreds of dolls, was the main draw for girls.
(10) "I am left with only memories now, wonderful memories which fill me with pride, and I feel truly enchanted to have spent my life knowing him."
(11) The steel columns that support the enchanting green roof of this parkland pavilion are so thin, they must be held in tension by long wire cables.
(12) Agni Taverna is an ordinary restaurant, albeit with enchanting views to the mountains of Albania and a friendly black and white cat.
(13) In the Odyssey , Circe warns Odysseus against the Sirens "who enchant all who come near them".
(14) So have young people for whom Blair is history (wicked history at that), enchanted by the campaign’s fervour.
(15) 360 degrees of enchantment and the highlight of our South African holiday.
(16) • Where to stay: Encanto da Lua , meaning The Moon's Enchantment, is just a short walk from the pools and ringside for the rising of the moon (standard doubles from R$ 230,00 (£70) a night, including breakfast, dinner and transfers).
(17) Highlight: Her enchanting Hansel and Gretel magic forest in biscuit week and being crowned first star baker of the series for her Jaffa orange cakes.
(18) Entrance to the park is free, combined entrance to the villa and the Casa delle Civette €10, free for EU citizens under-18s or over-65s Santa Costanza Santa Costanza Photograph: Alamy This enchanting circular chapel dates to the middle of the 4th century AD and is the earliest church in the city surviving more or less in its original form, with exquisite mosaics covering much of the ceiling.
(19) Patience (After Sebald) will be screened on Friday at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, as part of After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment, a weekend exploration of WG Sebald's work.
(20) Aside from the opportunities this rewilding presents for re-enchanting our lives, experience elsewhere in Europe suggests that eco-tourism has a far higher potential for employment, for supporting communities, for keeping the schools and shops and pubs and chapels open than sheep farming does.
Entrance
Definition:
(n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
(n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
(n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
(n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
(n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
(n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
(v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
(v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(3) In every center the average whole-breast dose to a reference organ (5 cm thick, composed of 50% fat + 50% water) was calculated on the basis of entrance exposure, HVL, and focus-skin distance; in 63.2% of the centers doses less than 0.15 cGy were employed.
(4) A catheter was placed in the epidural space, with entrance through L3-L4 and its extreme in L1.
(5) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(6) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
(7) Motile sperm were seen at the uterine entrance to the uterotubal junction (UTJ) in all females at 1-2 h pc, but in fewer females at later times.
(8) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(9) Various tests to assess arthritis were performed upon each patient's entrance into the study and at specified intervals throughout the 24-month study period.
(10) UNCONFIRMED reports of men wounded March 18, 2014 Ed Flanagan (@edmundflanagan) Entrance to base.
(11) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
(12) Hypoxemia was progressive from the time of entrance of the bronchoscope into the respiratory tree and continued into the immediate postbronchoscopic period when the mean fall was about 16 mm Hg.
(13) Rather, they will likely restrict their entrance by way of the most traditional route.
(14) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
(15) The vesicles exhibited apparent "entrance" I- counterflow but no apparent Na+-dependent I- transport activity.
(16) Main issues of health entrancing job design are: (1) Essential approaches of prevention are to be reevaluated.
(17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
(18) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(19) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the physiological activity observed with both PAES and PAESe may be related to their ability to gain entrance to adrenergic neurons and decrease norepinephrine synthesis within neurotransmitter storage vesicles.
(20) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.