charmed
adjUK /tʃɑːmd/ · US /t͡ʃɑɹmd/
1
Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
2
Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
- 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, […]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:
- ‘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.’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:
3
Impressed by the pleasantness of something.
- You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.
4
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a particle: having nonzero charm.
- Derived terms
- charmed life, charmedly, charmed quark, semi-charmed, uncharmed