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# incantation

noun (plural incantations)

«incantation» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An incantation is a set of words chanted or spoken as a magic spell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a wizard or witch who speaks an incantation to make water rise, or to bring a spell to life

### Examples

- The witch whispered an incantation over the pot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/#x1)
- He repeated the incantation three times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/#x2)
- At the magician's incantation the floods rose like mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «incantation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«incantation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/incantation.html) on Mova free.