incant

incant (third-person singular simple present incants, present participle incanting, simple past and past participle incanted)

(rare) To state solemnly, to chant.
To recite an incantation.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 378:
  They now remember a tall man wrapped in a cloak [...] incanting to himself as he crossed the road.
- 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  “Did you speak, child?” she whispered, as if she was a witch incanting a spell.

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