enchanter

[ en-chan-ter, -chahn- ]

noun

1. a person who enchants or delights.
2. a magician; sorcerer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enchanter¹

1250–1300; enchant + -er ¹; replacing Middle English enchantour < Anglo-French; Old French enchanteor < Late Latin incantātor, equivalent to Latin incantā ( re ) ( incantation ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

A black cat could be nothing else than an enchanter, according to what I had learned in my childhood, and I resolved to watch him.

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The Enchanter did not recognize the King's Son without his hawk and his hound and the fine clothes he used to wear.

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The King's Son turned his horse amongst the trees and began to search for the Enchanter.

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He told him, too, how the Enchanter was changed into a wolf, and how the wolf carried away Sheen's child.

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His knowledge of natural magic procured for him the appellations of enchanter, magician, wizard.

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