incantator

English

Etymology

incantate + -or

Noun

incantator (plural incantators)

  1. One who works magic by means of incantation.
    • 1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN:
      We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?
    • 1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs:
      In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.
    • 2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, ‎Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159:
      It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.
    • 2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN:
      Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

incantātor m (genitive incantātōris); third declension

  1. enchanter, spellcaster, conjurer, wizard
  2. soothsayer

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative incantātor incantātōrēs
Genitive incantātōris incantātōrum
Dative incantātōrī incantātōribus
Accusative incantātōrem incantātōrēs
Ablative incantātōre incantātōribus
Vocative incantātor incantātōrēs

Verb

incantātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of incantō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of incantō

References

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