effascinate
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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.