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/bɪwˈɪtʃ/ Listen

verb

Bewitch v. t. (past & past part. bewitched; pres. part. bewitching)

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. "See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up."

To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. "The charms of poetry our souls bewitch."

Synonyms: To enchant; captivate; charm; entrance.

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"Bewitch" Quotes from Famous Books

... maiden, if thou wilt release him thine shall be whatever cattle and property of mine are under thy father's hand." She smiled and answered, "O my master, I have no greed for the goods nor will I take them save on two conditions; the first that thou marry me to thy son and the second that I may bewitch her who bewitched him and imprison her, otherwise I cannot be safe from her malice and malpractices." Now when I heard, O Jinni, these, the words of the herdsman's daughter, I replied, "Beside what thou askest all the ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... good sense utterly. Still it is possible for even the wisest of women to lose her judgment at times. But as for my trusty steward Thomas Salthouse, the steadiest man I have ever had in my employ, if even old Nick himself has managed to bewitch him, he must be a cleverer devil ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

... Circe bathing her head in the salt sea-spray, for sorely had she been scared by visions of the night. With blood her chambers and all the walls of her palace seemed to be running, and flame was devouring all the magic herbs with which she used to bewitch strangers whoever came; and she herself with murderous blood quenched the glowing flame, drawing it up in her hands; and she ceased from deadly fear. Wherefore when morning came she rose, and with sea-spray was bathing her hair and her garments. And ...

— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... brave me? do you stand me out, mistress? Answer. Don't look at me with those eyes as if you would bewitch me again! Sooner than that I ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... the affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the presence of the objects; which are the points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing there be. We see likewise ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I • Francis W. Halsey

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