enchauntour
English
Noun
enchauntour (plural enchauntours)
- Obsolete form of enchanter.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- enchanteor, enchauntur, enchaunter, enchaunture, enchauntor, enchantour, enchantur, enchanter, enchountour
Etymology
From Old French enchanteor, from Latin incantātor; equivalent to enchaunten + -our.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛnˌtʃanˈtuːr/, /ɛnˈtʃantur/, /ɛnˈtʃantər/, /-tʃau̯n-/
Noun
enchauntour (plural enchauntours)
- enchanter (magic-user)
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, section 38, [1]
- But lat us go now to thilke horrible sweryng of adjuracioun and conjuracioun, as doon thise false enchauntours or nigromanciens in bacyns ful of water, or in a bright swerd, in a cercle, or in a fir, or in a shulderboon of a sheep.
- 14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, section 38, [1]
Descendants
References
- “enchauntǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 December 2019.