Noun : Her prose too often resorts to incantation. From Dictionary.com.
Such vain incantations could affect the mind, and increase the disease of Germanicus. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The many Latin incantations and imprecations could also help rekindle interest in the study of a “dead” language. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Old English comments: highlyeccentric said ... iiidjot. not to mention he buys into the silly logic which vaules HP for it's "Latin incantations". From Wordnik.com. [I think this is why I read the BBC...] Reference
The outsider, B, must imagine that his incantations are the healing-power that is curing A, and A must imagine that this is so. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science] Reference
Therefore, if it be lawful to adjure the demons, it is lawful to make use of necromantic incantations, which is evidently false. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Later on the tape there are some kind of incantations from the book. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Our incantations are our lines. From Wordnik.com. [The chrysalis stage of Gwendolyn Neuhauser (Revised again)] Reference
"incantations," rendered "sorceries" in Isa. 47: 9, 12, i.e., the using of certain formulae under the belief that men could thus be bound. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Do incantations have no effect on the material world?. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Sherwood: Heaven Help Us: Should You Pray for Christopher Hitchens Today?] Reference
Ebers, are to be found numerous incantations and conjurations. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
There, in a rudely constructed hut, he began his incantations. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Eh? By Solomon! who left us incantations stronger than thine. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
And they got into spells and incantations, as well as explosions. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Of The Dead And Famous. And Just The Dead.] Reference
But incantations, I don't think, have any effect on the material world. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Sherwood: Heaven Help Us: Should You Pray for Christopher Hitchens Today?] Reference
These wretches user for incantations, certain passages from the Psalms of. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
She was his life; fearful as she was in her mighty incantations, he feared her not. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The Greek was an expert dialectician when he was using incantations for his diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
All being ready, he concocted some charmed fluid, over which he muttered curious incantations. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
Adoration of the hidden forces of nature, and worship of superior beings, gave rise to incantations. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The Babylonian system of therapeutics was not unlike the Egyptian as far as incantations were concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
While these incantations are sung, topics of common interest are discussed, and plans formed, and in all. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
He did not have to be anywhere but here, listening to Henry's low, reverential incantations as he worked. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Animal] Reference
The Chaldean magi also employed many formulas and incantations for repelling evil spirits and for the cure of disease. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
No sooner had he finished his incantations than a magic boat stood ready before him, and he got into it and sailed away. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
Powerful magic was the weapon used, and the healer must be an expert in reciting incantations and skilful in making amulets. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Hence apparently the gradual evolution of a mass of incantations for use in every conceivable exigency or emergency of life. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The secret art of preparing incantations is said to have been imparted to others by Mizraim, the son of Ham, and as a result. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
She tuned the kite out as well as she could, but the endless angry incantations circled and circled and circled in her brain. From Wordnik.com. [Kite] Reference
He is an important power according to Dyak ideas, and to him offerings are made and incantations sung at all feasts connected with. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Also, led by an aged man who relied more on charms and incantations than upon valor, it stood in a fair way of utter extermination. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
For some inscrutable reason they have on me an effect similar to that which spells and incantations had on people in tales of witchcraft. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Drumming, dancing, incantations -- all rivet attention on a single, intense source of sensory stimulation, including the body's own movements. From Wordnik.com. [Religion And The Brain] Reference
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