Word: 'charm' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'charm' • Extended Annotations
circa 1300, "incantation, magic charm"
from Old French charme "magic charm, magic spell incantation; song, lamentation"
from Latin carmen "song, verse, enchantment, religious formula," from canere "to sing, chant"
from PIE root *kan- "to sing"
“That is one of the ways language can be used. Minimal inquiry or examining, minimal reasoning, but plenty of copying and pasting. Copying from accumulated memory, thereupon randomly inserting unexamined blurbs into speech. Some juggle their mental saves and scribbles very smoothly, and can be seen as charming, or pleasant, especially by those who likewise use language in this manner.”
"Weird Genius"
“A yet stronger power than that of herb or stone lies in the spoken word, and all nations use it both for blessing and cursing. But these, to be effective, must be choice, well knit, rhythmic words (verba concepta), must have lilt and tune; hence all that is strong in the speech wielded by priest, physician, magician, is allied to the forms of poetry.”
"Teutonic Mythology"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
