dementate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin dementare.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈmɛnteɪt/

Verb

dementate (third-person singular simple present dementates, present participle dementating, simple past and past participle dementated)

  1. (obsolete) To dement, to make crazy.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.117:
      as if they had all […] landed in the mad haven in the Euxine Sea of Daphne insana, which had a secret quality to dementate […].

Adjective

dementate (comparative more dementate, superlative most dementate)

  1. (obsolete) Deprived of reason.
    • 1645, Henry Hammond, St. Paul's Sermon to Felix:
      Arise, thou dementate sinner!

Latin

Verb

dēmentāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēmentō

Spanish

Verb

dementate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dementar combined with te
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.