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▪ I. impassionate, a.1 Now rare.|ɪmˈpæʃənət|
Also 6 em-.
[ad. It. impassionato, pa. pple. of impassionare (see impassion v.).]
= impassioned. (In Spenser const. as pa. pple. of impassion.)
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. (title-p.), Tamburlaine, with his impassionate fury. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. ix. 46 With the neare touch whereof in tender hart The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. 1812Coleridge in Southey's Omniana I. 238 The vehement and impassionate partizan of Mr. Wilkes.
▪ II. impassionate, a.2 Now rare.
[f. im-2 + passionate. Cf. med.L. impassiōnātus.]
Free from, or not governed by, passion; calm, dispassionate.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. i. iii. (1676) 117/2 It stirs up dull Symptoms, and a kind of stupidity, or impassionate hurt. 1644Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 123 It being the doctrine of that [Stoick] sect, that a wise man should be impassionate. 1664Leighton Def. Mod. Episc. Wks. (1868) 637 Upon the exactest (if impartial and impassionate) inquiry. 1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 106/1 Spirits..whose dwelling is with simple impassionate truth.
▪ III. impassionate, v.|ɪmˈpæʃəneɪt|
Also 7 em-.
[f. impassionate a.1: see -ate3.]
1. trans. = impassion.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 264 Alexandra..was above all empassionated for his death. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. iv. 185 A very empassionating strain of Poetry. 1669Addr. hopeful yng. Gentry Eng. 61 The object possessing and impassionating you. 1685H. More Para. Prophet. 11 With a moving and empassionating Rhetorick. 1857Whipple Character iv. (1866) 97 Genius..impassionates soaring imagination into settled purpose.
†2. intr. To be or become impassioned. Obs.
1639G. Daniel Vervic. 234 This fired my Rage; let it enflame thy verse, T' empassionate for me. 1646― Poems Wks. 1878 I. 63 How shall wee speake of him? what Numbers bring T'empassionate, and worthy Orgies sing? |