单词 | fascination |
释义 | fascinationn. 1. a. The casting of a spell or spells; sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment (esp. for malicious purposes). Formerly also: an instance of this; †a spell, an enchantment (obsolete). Now historical and somewhat rare.Typically considered as effected by the gaze of the person casting the spell. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] sigaldry?c1225 enchantery1297 enchantment1297 charminga1300 chantmentc1300 chantinga1382 forspeaking1483 fairyc1515 bewitching1535 enchanting1553 fascination1572 eye-biting1584 sparrow-blasting1589 effascination1624 enchant1634 maleficiation1649 spelling1665 glamour1793 weird1813 glamoury1821 ensorcellment1931 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell galderOE lede-runec1000 sigalderc1000 craftOE lede spelc1275 charma1300 conjurisonc1380 conjurationa1398 incantation1412 saunter1562 blessing1572 fascination1572 spell1579 lot1625 cantation1656 cantion1656 take1678 jynx1693 cantrip1719 pishogue1829 brujería1838 paternoster1880 goofer1887 runea1935 1572 J. Leslie Table out of Treat. Treasons f. 158 Can it be lesse, then a plaine fascination and sorcery, if your Queene can not yet be induced to see it? 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 60 We deny that fascination or bewitching is done onely by sight. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. iv. 16/1 They began to suspect that the Indian Sorcerers had laid the place under some Fascination. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 204 A belief in Fascination..appears to have been very generally prevalent in most ages and countries. 2012 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 64 374 Fascination [in ancient Greece] is seen as a form of malicious sorcery carried out without specific techniques or tools. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > state of being bewitched bewitchedness1587 fascination1622 bewitchery1711 bewitchment1794 1622 in R. Baddeley Boy of Bilson 24 In all which maruels nothing seemeth more maruellous then the fascination of men, in beeleeuing them. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. l. 101 Fascination is a binding, which comes from the spirit of the Witch, through the eyes of him that is bewitched, entering to his heart. 1767 F. Fawkes in tr. Theocritus Idylliums vi. (note) The antients imagined that spitting in their bosoms three times..would prevent fascination. 2. a. The quality of captivating a person; irresistibly attractive influence; allure. Also: the quality of being enthralling, intriguing, or extremely interesting. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > quality of fascination1697 interestingness1759 strikingness1818 interest1821 engrossingness1848 mirch masala1980 the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > fascination or enchantment witchcraft?c1550 witchery1575 sireny1600 bewitchment1610 captivation1610 bewitchery1652 enchantment1678 fascination1697 charming1720 witching1796 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 301 Others I might name, who by whatever unaccountable Fascination, or other material Quality of Mastring Spirits, have created Friends of deadly Enemies. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 101 Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwinked. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 28 I..can't withstand you know whose fascination. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xviii. 213 That perilous fascination which haunts the brow of precipices. 1935 V. Bell Sel. Lett. (1993) 386 You really ought to stay longer in Rome than one week. Its fascination grows and Angelica is completely bowled over by it. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 32/3 The complicated character of Canon Collins..is part of the fascination of this book. b. Something by which a person is enthralled or intrigued, or in which a person is extremely interested; a fascinating feature, aspect, person, or thing. ΚΠ 1715 J. Ozell tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Adventures Telemachus II. x. 175 You have been acquainted with the Truth from your Infancy upwards, and have never been abandon'd to the Fascinations [1699 seductions] of a too great Prosperity. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. i. 216 The career thus thrown open had all the fascinations of a desperate hazard. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. vi. 177 The Rectory had all the shortcomings and all the fascinations of an old house: wide hearths and dog-stoves, high mantel-pieces, deep recessed casements. 1977 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 29 Dec. 13/4 Miss Sperling says digging up old words became a hobby, later a fascination. 2011 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 46/2 The Sphinxian, minxian, languorous half-smile that has made her one of the fascinations of the age. c. The state of being enthralled or intrigued by, or extremely interested in, something or someone.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun] > condition of whole-mindedness1528 intentiveness1561 intentness1642 undistractedness1660 fascination1768 concentrativeness1823 preoccupancy1830 absorbedness1833 concentratedness1835 engrossment1838 raptness1856 fixedness1863 absorbancy1909 1768 tr. Voltaire Princess of Babylon xi. 143 There was nothing else talked of but her and her large bird. All the inhabitants were still in a state of fascination. 1830 Dublin Lit. Gaz. 5 June 364/1 One [portrait] in particular had arrested my inmost soul, and every faculty was lost in the intensity of the fascination. 1895 Manch. Weekly Times 1 Nov. (Suppl.) 7/4 While the French stare in fascination,..the 3rd Battalion of Wild Jaegers is disclosed waist-deep in their national beverage. 1948 New Republic 5 July An extreme example of James's fascination by brutality and violence. 2019 W. Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 31 July 13 The fascination with Lego starts with Duplo-style bricks and toddlers taking great delight in knocking down any tower mum or dad may build. 3. a. Of a snake, basilisk, etc.: the action or faculty of entrancing its prey by means of its gaze. Also more generally: the action or faculty of rendering a person or animal unable to move, escape, or resist.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often spec. in relation to hypnotism or mesmerism, sometimes as a synonym for animal magnetism n. (a) at animal n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > ability to fascinate prey fascination1766 1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. at Rattle-snake The charming or fascination of the rattle-snake, as this is usually called, has exercised the wits of many naturalists in vain. 1840 Bradford Observer 21 May She had not the power to turn her back upon it, but, like the fascination of the basilisk, her eyes were rivetted on the object which threatened destruction. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 27 The fascination of the serpent on the bird held her mute and frozen. 1891 G. C. Kingsbury Pract. Hypnotic Suggestion i in Wood's Med. & Surg. Monogr. XII. 269 Mesmer himself walked about the apartment, carrying an iron rod, with which he touched the patients. Sometimes he discarded his rod, in order to magnetize special patients either by means of strokings or by what we call fascination. 1946 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 59 180 Though the eyes were the usual organ of fascination, it was reported in Sonora that a species of large, black snake could draw even the deer with its breath. 2004 T. Brennan Transmision of Affect iii. 54 He [sc. Freud] clearly distinguishes between the influence of hypnosis, or ‘fascination’, on the one hand, and its contagious effect on the other. b. The state of being so fascinated; inability to move, escape, or resist, typically as effected by the gaze of a person or animal, or by intense or horrified curiosity. Now often in hyperbolic use. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > fascination or enchantment > state of being fascinated fascination1808 1808 Med. Repository 2nd Hexade 5 259 Surely their danger must have been sufficiently imminent to produce a dementing degree of fear..but I never could discover the symptoms of fascination; the animals would always leap to the nearest tree as fast as possible. 1830 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 12 June 395/2 Mrs. — describes herself as sensible of a feeling like what we conceive of fascination, compelling her for a time to gaze on this melancholy apparition. 1910 C. de Saint-Germain Pract. Hypnotism ii. iii. 149 Fascination—linked probably with a sentiment of curiosity—may also be produced by fire or a light. 2015 L. Brennan Shadows in Deep (e-book, accessed 7 Nov. 2019) ‘You like being strangled, asshole?’ she hissed. Bodie watched in paralyzed fascination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
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