Children, who had always figured largely in the felony of the age, made a profession of feigning the symptoms of the bewitched.
Initially intending to be weekend farmers, soon they are bewitched by the raw beauty of the place and move there permanently.
It bewitched the region's left, detaching large parts of it from a path of social democracy for a generation.
Surprisingly, he was relieved to know his results because all this time he felt he had been bewitched.
Several days later when the woodcutters found him, they thought the tree had bewitched him and began to chop it down.
British Dictionary definitions for bewitched
bewitch
/bɪˈwɪtʃ/
verb (transitive)
1.
to attract and fascinate; enchant
2.
to cast a spell over
Derived Forms
bewitching, adjective bewitchingly, adverb
Word Origin
C13 bewicchen; see be-, witch
Word Origin and History for bewitched
adj.
late 14c. in the literal sense, past participle adjective from bewitch; figurative use from 1570s.
bewitch
v.
c.1200, biwicchen, from be- + Old English wiccian "to enchant, to practice witchcraft" (see witch). Literal at first, figurative sense of "to fascinate" is from 1520s. *Bewiccian may well have existed in Old English, but it is not attested. Related: Bewitched; bewitching; bewitchingly.