incantational

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

incantation +‎ -al

Adjective[edit]

incantational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to incantation.
    • 1979 August 25, Nancy Walker, “Sothers and Others”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 11:
      Names [] do make a surprisingly meaningful difference. The power of words is mystical, magical, incantational. The child learns "dirty" words because they have amazing properties — they can move adults to prompt and sometimes startling actions.
    • 1994, Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, page 232:
      Some hint of the mantic/incantational subtext of Baal's speech to Anat may be found in a badly damaged and very difficult tablet, RS 92.2016 (Caquot and Dalix 2001:393–405).