fascinous

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adjective

Caused or acting by witchcraft.

OriginLatin fascinum →
Scrabble 14
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Meanings

adjectivefascinous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteCaused or acting by witchcraft.

    fascinous diseases

    1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
    2 more examples

    […] nor did I ever but once see him escape from the fascinous kind of influence which had seized upon him.

    1834, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, page 149

    […] that time, when I almost cursed humanity at large, and believed it to be a fascinous frailty to call woman by any other name than fiend; […]

    1872, Carey Hazelwood, Grayworth: a Story of Country Life, volume 2, page 43

Origin

  1. Latinfascinum“witchcraft”
  2. Englishfascinous

From Latin fascinum (“witchcraft”), akin to fascinare. See fascinate.

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Chicago

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