Word Finder - spell

definition

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

example

He cast a spell to cure warts.

synonyms

• cantrip
• incantation

definition

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

example

under a spell

synonyms

• cantrip

definition

Speech, discourse.

definition

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

I think you put a spell on me, sweetheart.

The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

The spell was broken like a dropped mirror on a marble floor.

Like Dracula, he was putting her under his spell again.

You have to stop putting that spell on them.

Be sure to run a spell check program as well.

He was too strong for her to place the spell on him without him agreeing at least in part.

She was quiet, weaving a second spell into the crystal.

The second spell will teach you mercy.

Tongan international flanker Johnny Tuamoheloa is now at Worcester and fly half Dave Harvey has returned to Australia after a spell with Coventry.

I stopped using it only after I had learned to spell the word on my fingers.

He loves to climb much better than to spell, but that is because he does not know yet what a wonderful thing language is.

The first team to correctly spell out the slogan wins the game.

If you want to spell out a message, use small metal letter stamps to imprint the soap bar.

But with Mediterranean diet recipes, this can spell disaster.

She wasn't going to fall under the spell of Gabriel's strong body, his passion, his taste.

But even with those bleak thoughts swirling in her head, she felt herself slide under his spell once again.

Her demon stirred in lazy agitation, as if still under the spell of Jame.

The resident, Freytag, was not a very wise person (though he probably did not, as Voltaire would have it, spell "poesie" "poeshie"); constant references to Frederick were necessary; and the affair was prolonged so that Madame Denis had time to join her uncle.

The extent and glamour of his empire exercised a potent spell on western Europe.

Search Spell uses actual misspellings entered into the search engines.

Edward could spell nearly all the words in his primer, and he could read quite well.

Everyone at headquarters was still under the spell of the day's council, at which the party of the young had triumphed.

You will need a Fortify Attribute spell.

If you want to make a rhyme, it's often easier to spell out the first word and find something that rhymes with the last letter.

You could spell out "Dad" using alphabet foam letter or choose shapes to represent one of Dad's favorite activities, such as fishing or football.

You can spell out a name or favorite quote to make a personalized flower pot decoration.

On the right hand side of each page, use letter stickers to spell out the names of each of your child's friends along the top of the page.

Have each member of the family hold up a wooden letter to spell out a word such as PEACE, JOY, or LOVE.

An acrostic poem is a poem in which the first letter of each line works together to spell a word or a phrase.

Use tiny letter stickers to spell out names or seasonal words.

Whether you spell it lasagna or lasagne, this hearty casserole is popular with nearly everyone and can easily be made as a vegetarian entrée.

While dairy fats in moderation are fine, making an entire dish centered on cheese can spell disaster.

You avoid the extra calories here or there that can spell weight gain.

For a moment his warm lips felt reassuring, and then reality broke the spell.

She shook her head and the motion brought on a dizzy spell.

Back and forth, back and forth, in a way that left her skin tingling and her feeling as if she was falling under some sort of spell.

His presence was intense but calming, almost to the degree she had the urge to lean against him and let his huge hands roam her body, grip her from behind and pull her … Crunching from behind her broke the spell.

Her breathing was ragged, her body shaking from the effect of his bite as well as her effort to fight his spell.

An exactly converse process must now be glanced at, whereby, instead of growing out of it, prayer actually generates spell.

The raja was persuaded that these mysterious figures were demons under a spell, which might come to life and kill him as he slept.

But the highest developments of priestly influence are hardly separable from something of magical superstition, the opus operatum of the priest has the power of a sorcerer's spell.

At the same time the fact that the lovers are the helpless victims of the fatal force of a magic spell is insisted upon, in order that their career of falsehood and deception may not deprive them of sympathy.

His earliest teacher (omitting the legendary Scotchman Menzies) was the dyak, or clerk of the council, Nikita Zotov, subsequently the court fool, who taught his pupil to spell out the liturgical and devotional books on which the children of the tsar were generally brought up. After Zotov's departure on a diplomatic mission, in 1680, the lad had no regular tutor.

Lewes (q.v.), starting from the phenomenalism of Hume, fell under the spell of Kant and his successors, and produced a compromise between G.H.Lewes.

The last state now became worse than the first, as Alexander fell more and more under the spell of the infamous Cesare Borgia.

As the arbitrary king alienated the Liberal Catholics, who were still more or less under the spell of the French Revolution, the Catholic provinces took advantage of the upheavals of 1830 to form the independent kingdom of Belgium.

Phoenicia now became part of the fifth satrapy of the Persian Empire, and entered upon a spell of comparative peace and growing prosperity.

The earliest anecdote of Pascal is one of his being bewitched and freed from the spell.

He prayed fervently against his idleness; he determined, as often as he received the sacrament, that he would no longer doze away and trifle away his time; but the spell under which he lay resisted prayer and sacrament.