different between healer vs enchanter

English

Etymology

From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal +? -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hi?l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hil?/
• Rhymes: -i?l?(r)

Noun

healer (plural healers)

1. One who heals, especially through faith.
2. Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.

Hyponyms

• faith healer
• medicine man
• quack
• quack doctor
• shaman
• witch doctor

Translations

Anagrams

• Harlee, reheal

English

Alternative forms

• enchantor, inchantor, enchantour, enchauntour, inchanter (all obsolete)
• enchauntor (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incant?tor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incant?re (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t???nt?/, /?n?t???nt?/, /?n?t???nt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?ænt?/, /?n?t?ænt?/, /?n?t?ænt?/

Noun

enchanter (plural enchanters, feminine enchantress)

1. One who enchants or delights.
   • 1991, "Critics' Voices" in Time, 11 February, 1991, [1]

     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 […]

2. 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:

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XI, Chapter VIII, [2]

     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.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind", lines 2-3, [3]

     Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, [4]

     […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

Derived terms

• enchanter's nightshade

Translations

Anagrams

• re-enchant, reenchant

French

Etymology

From Old French enchanter, probably borrowed from Latin incant?re, present active infinitive of incant?. Doublet of incanter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.???.te/

Verb

enchanter

1. (transitive) to enchant

Conjugation

Derived terms

• enchanté

Related terms

• chanter

Further reading

• “enchanter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

enchanter

1. Alternative form of enchauntour

Old French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin incant?re, present active infinitive of incant?, from cantus (“song; chant”). Compare chant, chanter, etc.

Verb

enchanter

1. to enchant (to put under the power of an enchantment)
   • c. 1261, Rutebeuf, Ci commence le miracle de Théophile

     Sui trop fort enchantez.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Derived terms

• enchantement

Related terms

• chanter

Descendants

• ? Middle English: enchaunten, enchaunte, enchanten, enchant
  • English: enchant
  • Scots: enchant
• French: enchanter