enchanted
(adjective) influenced as by charms or incantations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
enchanted
simple past tense and past participle of enchant
enchanted (comparative more enchanted, superlative most enchanted)
Charmed, delighted, enraptured.
Under the influence of enchantment.
enchanted
(dated) A greeting used when introduced to someone for the first time, especially by a man when introduced to a woman.
Source: Wiktionary
En*chant"ed, a.
Definition: Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.
En*chant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchanting.] Etym: [F. enchanter, L. incantare to chant or utter a magic formula over or against one, to bewitch; in in, against + cantare to sing. See Chant, and cf. Incantation.]
1. To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Shak. He is enchanted, cannot speak. Tennyson.
2. To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear. Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted. Sir P. Sidney.
Syn.
– To charm; bewitch; fascinate. Cf. Charm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 July 2024
(adjective) free from danger or risk; “secure from harm”; “his fortune was secure”; “made a secure place for himself in his field”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
