bewitch Copy link Outline I. To fascinate by magic1. fascĭno, 1 (having ref. to the supposed power of an evil eye)2. effascĭno, 13. dēvŏvĕo, vōvi, vōtum, 2 (with ref. to the imprecations and incantations of sorcery)II. To charm, fascinate • bewitch: I. To fascinate by magic: 1. fascĭno, 1 (having ref. to the supposed power of an evil eye): some eye or other b.s my tender lambs, nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos, Virg. 2. effascĭno, 1: Plin.: Gell. 3. dēvŏvĕo, vōvi, vōtum, 2 (with ref. to the imprecations and incantations of sorcery): has some old woman b.'d you by her incantations? num te carminibus devovit anus? Tib.: Ov. II. To charm, fascinate: q. v.
BEWITCH Copy link • BEWITCHfascinare, effascinare (PROP., by “an evil eye,” fascinus: then also by words and other means which should be expressed, visu, lingua, voce atque lingua); incantare (by spells: first in Apul., for incantati lapilli in Hor. has not this meaning). An eye bewitches my lambs, oculus mihi fascinat agnos. Fig. capere, rapere, delinire, permulcere: of bewitching beauty (puella, etc.), cujus forma rapit (after Propertius, 2, 26, 44), or pulchritadine, forma, venustate insignis.