effascination
English
Etymology
Latin effascinatio.
Noun
effascination (plural effascinations)
- (obsolete) A charming; a state of being bewitched or deluded.
- 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Procvs & Pvella”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], OCLC 5060642, page 23:
- If in myne eies there be effaſcination, / How comes it there is no ſuch alteration / In others I behold?
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for effascination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)