enchantern.
/ɛnˈtʃɑːntə//ɛnˈtʃantə/ 1.
a. One who enchants, uses magic (see enchant v. 1); formerly also, a ‘conjuror’, one who practises sleight of hand.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > enchanter
enchanter1297
chanterc1300
charmera1340
incantator1447
bewitcher1545
spellman1611
incanter1829
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 28 Þe kyng Baþulf..gret enchanter was.
c1305 St. Lucy in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 104 Myne enchantours bynyme schulle þi wicchinge.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋615 Fflatereres been the deueles Enchauntours.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xl. 847 Þis stone [sc. Eliotropia] discerneþ þe folye of enchauntes [read enchaunters; L. incantatorum] and of wicches.
c1430 Pilg. Life Manhode (1869) ii. cxxii. 121 If evere thou seye an enchantour pleye with an hat, how he maketh the folk to wene there be somewhat under.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 113 Now hath the enchauntor well spoken.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance iii. f. 5 Vsynge the counsayle of wytches and inchanters, he made his sacrifice with yong children.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 56 He must pay a great summe of money to the inchanter to be purified.
1637 J. Milton Comus 22 By this means I knew the foule inchanter.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 59 Whether..we consider the Magicians to be Philosophers, or..Inchanters and Conjurers.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 206 The art of the enchanter is a mode of charming snakes and spiders.
b. transferred. A ‘charmer’, bewitching woman.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman
morsela1450
honeypot1618
enchantera1704
peach1710
enchantress1713
sparkler1713
enslaver1728
witch1740
fascinatress1799
honey1843
biscuit1855
fairy1862
baby1863
scorcher1881
cracker1891
peacherino1896
hot tamale1897
mink1899
hotty?1913
babe1915
a bit of skirt1916
cookie1917
tomato1918
snuggle-pup1922
nifty1923
brahma1925
package1931
ginch1934
blonde bombshell1942
beast1946
smasher1948
a bit of crackling1949
nymphet1955
nymphette1961
fox1963
beaver1968
superbabe1970
brick house1977
nubile1977
yummy mummy1993
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > fascination or enchantment > one who fascinates or enchants > female
enchantera1704
enchantress1713
witch1740
fascinatress1799
a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in Wks. (1707) I. i. 62 With sure success each fair Enchanter sets, Toils for my Heart.
2. enchanter's nightshade n. Circæa lutetiana.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun]
willow-herb1578
bindweed nightshade1597
enchanter's nightshade1597
rosebay1597
willow1597
French willow1601
willow-flower1633
rose withy1650
codlings-and-cream1670
willow weed1741
gooseberry fool1785
epilobium1809
onagrad1846
cherry-pie1857
apple pie plant1858
slink-weed1858
fiddle-grass1878
epilobe1883
satin flower1891
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 280 Inchaunters Nightshade hath leaues like vnto Petimorell.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Enchanters-nightshade. The name of a plant, the circæa.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vi. 95 Here the ivy-leaved bell-flower, and not far from it the common enchanter's night-shade, the silver weed, and the water-aven.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 290 Order Onagrariæ. Circæa Lutetiana (common Enchanter's Night-shade).
1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 340 Among our nativeland plants few exhibit a finer display of these phenomena than may be seen in the young hairs of the fruit of the Enchanter's Night-shade (Circæa Lutetiana).
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