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Date: 1300-1400
Language: French
Origin: Latin incantare 'to use magic power on', from cantare 'to sing'

incantation

 noun
     
Related topics: Magic
in‧can‧ta‧tion [uncountable and countable]
ROM special words that someone uses in magic, or the act of saying these words:
a book of spells and incantations
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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