The word "enchant" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of charming or delighting someone or something. For example, "I was enchanted by the beautiful music I heard coming from the concert hall."
For Prophet Smith, it was a manifestation of the divine: "I arose, and to my great joy, beheld the stars fall from the heavens like a shower of hailstones... it seemed as if the artillery and fireworks of eternity were set in motion to enchant and entertain the Saints, and terrify and awe the sinners of the Earth".
A henchman accidentally shot in the stomach gets a boozy month in the resort of Mazatlán as compensation.Mr Bowden's writing, which reads like fiction though it describes fact, will enchant some and drive others up the wall.
Disney is best known for cartoons that enchant children, from "Snow White" to "The Lion King".
Indeed, they were designed to "enchant the senses, delight the eye and inspire the intellect," writes Sabine Haag, the curator of this show loaned from Vienna's Kunsthistoriche Museum (KHM), in the excellent catalogue.
A Beijing autumn, calm and golden, with persimmons hanging like lanterns in the trees, would enchant him.
But whereas in Gilman's day curators reigned supreme, now they have to enchant visitors rather than lecture them.
And when she retired in 1989, leaving a company that now controls 40 brands and has annual sales of $5 billion in 22,000 sites round the world, she set up a foundation whose main interests, as well as saving wildlife, were stopping domestic violence and making women self-sufficient.The business of fashion had ceased to enchant by then.
In reality, Mr Kuvatov had limited influence and did not enchant all Tajik democracy advocates.
Mr Rajapaksa usually carries a cylindrical gold talisman, supposedly with powers to enchant.
It seeks to enchant the holy power.
In 1669 the publication in France of Lettres portugaises ("Portuguese Letters"; Eng. trans. The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun) introduced a literary mystery that would enchant readers for centuries.
