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形容詞

charmed (comparative more charmed, superlative most charmed)

1. Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.

   Synonyms: ensorcelled, spellbound, under a spell; see also Thesaurus:enchanted

2. Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.

   Synonyms: fortunate, providential, serendipitous; see also Thesaurus:lucky

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
     Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
     And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
     To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:

     ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’

3. Impressed by the pleasantness of something.

   You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.

4. (physics) Of a particle: having nonzero charm.

派生語

動詞

charmed

1. simple past and past participle of charm

アナグラム

• decharm, demarch, drachme, marched