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Webster 1913 Edition


Dementate

De-men′tate

,
Adj.
[L.
dementatus
, p. p. See
Dement
,
Verb.
T.
]
Deprived of reason.
Arise, thou
dementate
sinner!
Hammond.

De-men′tate

Verb.
T.
To deprive of reason; to dement.
[R.]
Burton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dementate

DEMENTATE

,
Adj.
Mad; infatuated.

DEMENTATE

,
Verb.
T.
To make mad.

Definition 2024


dementate

dementate

English

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To dement, to make crazy.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.
    • Hammond
      Arise, thou dementate sinner!

Latin

Verb

dēmentāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēmentō