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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
charm .
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Examples
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Again the music sounded — “music such as charmeth sleep” — and again she gradually yielded to its sweet magic.
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So the young men mounted their mules and asses and Nur al-Din mounted a she-mule and rode with them to a garden, wherein was all that sould desireth and that eye charmeth.
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She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the sons of the merchants entered the vergier, they found therein all that soul desireth or eye charmeth, grapes of many hues grown, hanging in bunches or alone, even as saith of them the poet,
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Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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Take heed that what charmeth thee is real, nor springeth of thine own imagination;
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Of the Senses she charmeth, the sceptre she swayeth;
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
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Now certain incantations are efficacious in checking serpents, or in healing certain other animals: wherefore it is written (Ps. 57: 5): "Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent, like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears, which will not hear the voice of the charmers, nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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