enfeloned

English

Etymology

Calque of Old French enfelonné, past participle of enfelonner (“to irritate; to anger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɛlənd/

Adjective

enfeloned (comparative more enfeloned, superlative most enfeloned)

1. (obsolete) Rendered fierce or frantic.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48:

     Out of her fist the wicked weapon caught: / With that like one enfelon'd or distraught,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enfeloned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)