(n.) The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.
(n.) A formula of words used as above.
Example Sentences:
(1) It incants the motto of the Bill Shankly school of cliche: that football is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important.
(2) Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman star as neighbours Mrs Silver and Mr Hoppy, who are brought together when Hoppy whispers a magic growth spell to Silver’s pet tortoise, then attempts to bring the incantation’s power to fruition.
(3) Place names and plant names assume the status of chants or litanies: spectral taxa incanted as elegy, or as a means to conjure back.
(4) Take the cue from Classic FM's manic incantation, "Just relax".
(5) Elements of Western psychological medical methods (such as environmental manipulation, enquiry into the unconscious motivation of behaviour, and suggestion through incantation) were evident in this practice, although applied without the systematic coherence of clinical medicine.
(6) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.
(7) It was, said one contemporary, like watching "a magician, performing his incantations in public".
(8) She'd snarl like an angry Dylan or croon with tenderness, punctuating Lenny Kaye's guitar work with murmured incantations.
(9) A familiar ritual played out each Saturday night in autumn, beginning with tension-creating music and the basso profundo of Peter Dickson, whose pause-laden announcements made his voice as recognisable to British viewers as Richard Dimbleby's had been half a century earlier, and ending with the magical incantations "calls cost 50p from landlines, mobile networks may vary" and "please ask the bill-payer's permission", which caused millions of digits to press urgently on keypads.
(10) Some interesting points that emanated from the study include the healers' explanation that a person's essence is transmitted to his personal effects, which are used with incantation to inflict the deaf person.
(11) Long to reign over us – that old incantation has worked, so next week the Queen’s reign becomes the longest ever.
(12) In his article, 'The Effectiveness of Symbols,' Lévi-Strauss contends that the details of a Cuna birth incantation evoke specific physiological responses from parturient women, aiding them through difficult labors.
(13) Witches at Their Incantations (perhaps illustrating his own poem Strega), in the National Gallery, is a hideous nocturnal fantasy of the black sabbath, full of skeletal monstrosities, a hanged man, stolen babies, naked hags and evil brews.
(14) "I have friends who come by and say 'Om' [a Buddhist incantation]," he said.
(15) Inside the Palais, the delegates recite his name like an incantation.
(16) The meme artists got to work on that one, imagining covfefe might be Trump’s safe word, or else an incantation that could summon an ancient spirit wizard from the deep .
(17) But there were also real concession to the Kurds: the scrapping of Turkish nationalist school incantations that Kurdish children have to intone every day; the likelihood of bigger and easier Kurdish representation in the Ankara parliament; Kurdish parties allowed to campaign in their own language and to benefit more easily from state funding.
(18) His argument, which analyzes the incantation as a text divorced from its social setting, has drawn criticism from students of Cuna society on a number of substantive points, primarily centering around the difficulties that the special linguistic form of ritual language would present to a non-adept.
(19) If the patient lacks a thorough comprehension of the mythic details, how can the incantation change her physiological processes?
(20) Yet institutions and ideologies cannot survive by mere incantation or reminders of past horrors.
Spirits
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.