Ensorcelling

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process of captivating or enchanting individuals or items involves the use of magical influence to invoke a spell or manipulation It signifies the art of employing sorcery for control or magical alteration
2. Enchantment through magical means denotes the action of casting a spell to influence a person or object This refers to the act of mesmerizing or controlling through mystical arts
3. The act of using potent magic to charm or influence people or objects reflects a transformative experience involving supernatural forces

Etymology: Behind "ensorcelling" lies the Latin word "sors," meaning "fate, lot," and by extension an oracular response, the kind of answer drawn by casting lots. That sense passed into Old French as "sorcier," a sorcerer, and the medieval French verb "ensorceler" was built from it by adding the prefix "en-," which here means "caused" or "brought about." To ensorcell someone was, quite literally, to put them under a sorcerer's power, and the French verb already carried the sense of captivating as well as casting a spell. English borrowed the verb from Old French as a variant of "ensorcerer," and the earliest record in the Oxford English Dictionary dates it to 1891, a relatively recent arrival for a word that feels so old-fashioned. The base "sorcerer" has the same ancestry, so the two verbs share the same underlying idea of a fate-bound, lot-casting power over others.

Synonyms: enchanting, bewitching, charming

Antonyms: disenchanting, repelling, boring