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enchantress|ɛnˈtʃɑːntrɪs, -æ-|
Forms: 4–6 enchaunteresse, 6 enchanteresse, 6–8 inchantresse, 8– enchantress.
[a. OF. enchanteresse, fem. of enchantere, -eor enchanter.]
A female enchanter.
1. A female who employs magic; a witch, sorceress. Also fig.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. iv. 123 O feble and lyȝt is þe hand of Circes þe enchaunteresse. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. xii, Broteon and..Orion wer sones of Mycale the enchaunteresse. 1598Grafton Chron. II. 538 A develish Witch, and a fanaticall Enchaunteresse. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 299 Endor, famous by reason of the Inchantresse. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 157 The fucus which these inchantresses..have laid upon the features..of Truth. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 162 The soft Enchantress dame..to whom the powers belong Of dreadful magic. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xxi. 389 Philosophy becomes a vain babbler, and Religion a superstitious enchantress. 1815Moore Lalla R. (1824) 414 The Enchantress now begins her spell.
2. fig. A charming or bewitching woman.
1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 194 There shalt thou meet Of soft Enchantresses th' Enchantments sweet. 1866–8M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile i. 3 The girl he loved was the most capricious little enchantress. |