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Infatuate   Listen
verb
Infatuate  v. t.  (past & past part. infatuated; pres. part. infatuating)  
1.
To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment. "The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people... ripe and prepared for destruction."
2.
To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming. "The people are... infatuated with the notion."






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"Infatuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... destin'd years come round." Nor may I tell thee more, save that the meed Of sorrow well-deserv'd shall quit your wrongs. And now the visage of that saintly light Was to the sun, that fills it, turn'd again, As to the good, whose plenitude of bliss Sufficeth all. O ye misguided souls! Infatuate, who from such a good estrange Your hearts, and bend your gaze on vanity, Alas for you!—And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me. The eyes Of Beatrice, resting, as before, Firmly upon ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante

... they went side by side up the avenue, in the mellow light of the westering sun, preceded in their course, and pursued, and surrounded, by the mob of hoarse infatuate youths, Zuleika's face was as that of a little girl sulking. Vainly the Duke reasoned with her. She could NOT ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... fulfilled, the presage of the war Launched on my son, by will of Zeus! I deemed our doom afar In lap of time; but, if a king push forward to his fate, The god himself allures to death that man infatuate! So now the very fount of woe streams out on those I loved, And mine own son, unwisely bold, the truth hereof hath proved! He sought to shackle and control the Hellespontine wave, That rushes from the Bosphorus, with fetters of a slave!— To curb and bridge, with welded links, the streaming ...
— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus



Words linked to "Infatuate" :   infatuation, fire, arouse, raise, provoke, evoke, elicit



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