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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

incantational en · ADJ

Etymology

From incantation + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to incantation.
    • Names […] do make a surprisingly meaningful difference. The power of words is mystical, magical, incantational. The child learns "dirty" words because they have amazing properties — they can move adults to prompt and sometimes startling actions. 1979 August 25, Nancy Walker, “Sothers and Others”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 11:
    • Some hint of the mantic/incantational subtext of Baal's speech to Anat may be found in a badly damaged and very difficult tablet, RS 92.2016 (Caquot and Dalix 2001:393–405). 1994, Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, page 232: