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# incantation

«incantation» in Mova's school dictionary: **a set of words chanted or spoken as a magic spell** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural incantations)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incantation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incantation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.