[f. ENCHANT v. + -ING2.]
1. That enchants or lays under a spell.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 53. Stoppe thyne eares from … the inchauntynge mermaydes.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon (1861), 172. The enchanting forces of the devil.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1626), 135.
| On Pelias, and his drowsie Guard, she hung | |
| A death-like sleepe with her inchanting tongue. |
2. Charming, delightful, enrapturing.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. ii. 132. I must from this enchanting Queene breake off.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 355. Sin, his faire inchanting Daughter, thus the silence broke.
1718. Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., II. xlviii. 50. It has an enchanting effect.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 120. No spectrum analysis can decompose for us that enchanting ray.
