{"id":5568,"date":"2025-08-23T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:09:19","slug":"ensorcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/ensorcell\/","title":{"rendered":"ensorcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ensorcell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">en\u00b7sor\u00b7cell<\/a> [en\u02c8s\u00f4rs\u0259l] verb archaic<br \/>\nenchant; fascinate:<br \/>\n&#8220;he was a child when the power of a mythic image first ensorcelled him&#8221;<br \/>\nSimilar: captivate charm delight dazzle enrapture entrance<\/p>\n<p>The above link shows an etymology from Old French: ensorceler (\u201cto cast a spell, enchant; to captivate\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Found in this phrase in a review by Namwali Serpell of <i>Fish Tales <\/i>by Nettie Jones, New York Review of Books, June 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch\" data-attributes=\"\" data-quote=\"\" data-source=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-content\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">We live in a time especially ensorcelled by novelty. Artists have always valued originality, but there\u2019s this competitive edge to it now, and it can turn litigious on a dime.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>en\u00b7sor\u00b7cell [en\u02c8s\u00f4rs\u0259l] verb archaic enchant; fascinate: &#8220;he was a child when the power of a mythic image first ensorcelled him&#8221; Similar: captivate charm delight dazzle enrapture entrance The above link shows an etymology from Old French: ensorceler (\u201cto cast a spell, enchant; to captivate\u201d) Found in this phrase in a review by Namwali Serpell of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/ensorcell\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,5,7,8,14,4604],"tags":[5174,5175,5176,5173,5172,5178,5177,5179,4873],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5568","6":"format-standard","7":"category-arts","8":"category-content","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-feminism","11":"category-racism","12":"category-what-i-read","13":"post_tag-captivate","14":"post_tag-charm","15":"post_tag-delight","16":"post_tag-ensorcell","17":"post_tag-ensorcelled","18":"post_tag-fish-tales","19":"post_tag-namwali-serpell","20":"post_tag-nettie-jones","21":"post_tag-new-york-review-of-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}