efferate

English

Etymology

From Latin efferātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“to make wild or savage, brutalize, barbarize; to make fierce, infuriate, madden”).

Verb

efferate (third-person singular simple present efferates, present participle efferating, simple past and past participle efferated)

1. (obsolete) To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.
   • 1616, Roger Gostwyke, The Anatomie of Ananias; or, Gods Censure Against Sacriledge, page 148:

     […]; by which meanes he ſtill breaks out againe, and I know not whether more efferated by former attachings, or animated by his often diſchargings, he euer rampeth more feircely than before, and threatneth his accuſers, to ruine all that is holy.

   • 1632 (erroneously dated 1633), William Prynne, Histrio-mastix: The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragœdie, Divided into Two Parts, London: […] E[dward] A[llde, Augustine Mathewes, Thomas Cotes] and W[illiam] I[ones] for Michael Sparke:

     Secondly, as the Stile, and subiect Matter of Stage-Playes is Scurrilous, and Obscene, so likewise it is Bloody, and Tyrannicall; breathing out Malice, Fury, Anger, Murther, Crueltie, Tyrannie, Treacherie, Frensie, Treason, and Reuenge, (the constant Theames, and chiefe Ingredients, of all our Tragedies,) which Efferate, and enrage the Hearts, and Mindes, of Actors, and Spectators; yea, oft times animate, and excite them to Anger, Malice, Duels, Murthers, Reuenge, and more then Barbarous crueltie, to the great disturbance of the publike Peace.

   • 1651, John Hinde, A Gagg to Love’s Advocate: or, A Short Confutation of Those Reasons Offered for Mercie in His Behalf, pages 8 and 17:

     […]; but if hee had thought even by a civil analogie what theſe men muſt bee in their morals and religions that efferated by a private ſpleen, would give up their Nation to ruine, I believ, Hee would not have put himſelf to a trouble to a framing theſe merciful expedients; […]; but this man in ſtead of preaching Chriſt, efferated the ſpirits of his Hearers into rebellions and commotions;

   • 1658, Thomas Manton, A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition with Notes on the Epistle of Jude. Delivered (for the Most Part) in Sundry Weekly Lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex., London: […] J. M. for Luke Fawn, page 212:

     1.2. Wherein haſt thou loved us? or, which is worſe, deſpiſe God himſelf; turn back upon the Mercie-ſeat, grow very negligent, cold and careleſs in the Worſhip of God: nay many times the minde is efferated and grown bruitiſh and inſolent both towards God and man […]

   • 1670, Joseph Teate, A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of S^t. Canice, Kilkenny, Feb. 27, 1669, Dublin: […] Benjamin Tooke, page 8:

     […]: in the laſt dayes perillous times ſhall come, Laſt dayes they are in regard of the adminiſtration, that doth ſucceed, and exceed that which was Levitical, Chriſt being a better Prince then Moſes in his Sanctions, a better Prieſt then Aaron in his Sacrifice, he was not onely an High Prieſt, but an Apoſtle, that was ſent out of the Boſome of the Father, to bring glad tydings, yet when the Plenty of Grace was moſt of all diſperſed, the Power of Godlineſs was moſt deſpiſed, ſo that men were efferated by clemency, enraged by meekneſs, impatient by forbearance, wax wanton in the moſt goodly Heritage;

   • a. 1677, Thomas Manton, One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm Preached by the Late Reverend and Learned Thomas Manton, D.D.; […], London: […] T. P. &c., published 1681:

     ’Tis a sign men have drunk in a false Religion, when their spirits are efferated, and grow Monsters in wickedness;

   • 1677, The Plain Mans Way of Worship and Practice, the fourth edition, London: […] R. White, and J. Martin, page 31:

     I am not ſo fooliſh t^o Hope, That, now that the Age is become ſo efferated by the late Civil War’ and ſo emboldned by their conſtant Impunity after whatſoever Provocations and Affrontings of Authority;

   • 1678, C[harles] Pora, A Sovereign Balsam to Cure the Languishing Diseases of This Corrupt Age, page 514:

     How hath it efferated ſome, and made them inſolent, fierce, froward!

   • 1832, “Monthly Commentary”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, London: […] for Henry Colburn by Richard Bentley, section “The Schoolmaster in Fault”, page 274:

     With forty or fifty boys under him, nothing is learnt, and the master, disgusted with the ignorance of his pupils, and dissatisfied with his own situation, if he has a bad temper, or a temper that may be made bad, plies the cane, and grows efferated by revenging his hard fate on schoolboys’ ears.

Related terms

• efferous

Italian

Adjective

efferate

1. feminine plural of efferato

Latin

Verb

efferāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of efferō

References

• “efferate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• efferate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.