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.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , 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
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