1. Invested with magical powers or properties. Also fig.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. vi. 26. The same which … in that enchaunted glasse she saw.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 112. Where thou bee’st he or no, Or some inchanted triffle to abuse me.
1671. Milton, Samson, 932. I know … thy fair enchanted cup.
1815. Moore, Lalla R. (1824), 330. So powerfully on every soul That new, enchanted measure stole.
1877. W. Jones, Finger-ring L., 113. The enchanted rings of the Greeks.
2. Bewitched, laid under a spell.
1710. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 254, ¶ 1. All is Enchanted Ground, and Fairy Land.
1769. Junius Lett., xx. 96. The enchanted castles of ministerial magic.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxvi. On Heaven and on thy lady call, And enter the enchanted hall!
† b. Deluded, captivated as by magic. Obs.
1617. Hieron, Wks. (1619–20), II. 220. His owne inchaunted and beguiled heart.
3. Delighted, charmed, enraptured.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 83. Therefore that praise which Colatine doth owe, Inchaunted Tarqvin aunswers with surmise, In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes.
1846. Keble, Lyra Innoc. (1873), 208. Drink the loved cadence with enchanted ear.
