dementate
English
editEtymology
editFrom the participle stem of Latin dementare.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdementate (third-person singular simple present dementates, present participle dementating, simple past and past participle dementated)
- (obsolete) To dement, to make crazy.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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
editdementate (comparative more dementate, superlative most dementate)
- (obsolete) Deprived of reason.
- 1645, Henry Hammond, St. Paul's Sermon to Felix:
- Arise, thou dementate sinner!
Latin
editVerb
editdēmentāte
Spanish
editVerb
editdementate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dementar combined with te