1894 Brewer’s / I / Incantation
A singing against, that is, singing a set form of words in order to bring Divine wrath upon persons or nations.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.