effascinate

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Etymology

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Latin effascinare.

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

  1. (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

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