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: 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

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