effascinate

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

effascinate (third-person singular simple present effascinates, present participle effascinating, simple past and past participle effascinated)

(obsolete) To charm; to bewitch.
- 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
  [they] were deluded, effascinated and befooled with his [Descartes'] jocular Subtilty and prestigious Abstractions there

References edit

“effascinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

caffeinates