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An enchanter is someone who uses magic on people and things — in stories, a person who sings or speaks spells that change the world. The old idea sitting inside the word is of singing a spell: in Latin, incantare meant “to sing over something.” In fairy tales and fantasy books, an enchanter may put a charm on a ring, a forest, or a person. The female form you will also meet is enchantress, though enchanter is sometimes used for any gender now. It is a story-book word, not a job in real life. When people call a real person an enchanter, they are stretching it: they mean the person is unusually charming, as if by magic.
施咒者、魔法師。遊戲裡的「附魔師」多半是幫武器附魔的職業，和童話裡對人施法的人不完全一樣。
組成From Old French enchanteor, from Latin incantātor, from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). In English it also matches enchant + -er. Doublet of the rare word incantator.
同家族的字
- enchantenchanter is enchant + -er
- enchantmentthe spell or the magic feeling from the same stem
- incantationfrom the same Latin incantare, “to sing a spell”
- chantboth go back to Latin for “sing”; a spell was once something you sang
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enchanternoun/ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/
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One who enchants or delights.
- Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
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A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113, No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
- He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。