enchauntour
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
enchauntour (plural enchauntours)
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- enchanteor, enchauntur, enchaunter, enchaunture, enchauntor, enchantour, enchantur, enchanter, enchountour
Etymology[edit]
From Old French enchanteor, from Latin incantātor; equivalent to enchaunten + -our.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
enchauntour (plural enchauntours)
- enchanter (magic-user)
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, section 38, [1]
- But lat us go now to thilke horrible sweryng of adjuracioun and conjuracioun, as doon thise false enchauntours or nigromanciens in bacyns ful of water, or in a bright swerd, in a cercle, or in a fir, or in a shulderboon of a sheep.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, section 38, [1]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “enchauntǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-10.
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