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▪ I. † deˈmentate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. dēmentāt-us, pa. pple. of dēmentāre to dement.]
Driven mad, crazed, demented.
1640Intentions of Armie Scotl. 7 The plots of our dementat adversaries. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 1 Raving and dementate Persons.
▪ II. dementate, v.|dɪˈmɛnteɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. dēmentāre to dement.]
= dement v.1 ? Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1676) 44/1 Daphnis insana, which had a secret quality to dementate. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 566 To..inflame you, and dementate you to your own ruine. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 107, I speak not here of men dementated with wine. 1829Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 86 Those whom the Prince of this World..dementates.
Hence deˈmentated ppl. a. = dementate a., demented; deˈmentating ppl. a.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 195 In the dementating furies of divination. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Dissert. Physick 38 Thinking the dementating Disaster of those young Ladies was caus'd..by their being drunk. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil i. xi. (1840) 172 The blind dementated world. 1813Q. Rev. IX. 419 Some..seem to have been perfectly dementated. |