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dementate

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English

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Etymology

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From the participle stem of Latin dementare.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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: [] 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

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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

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Verb

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dēmentāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēmentō

Spanish

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Verb

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dementate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dementar combined with te