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Infatuate

verb

(past & past part. infatuated; pres. part. infatuating)

Arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way. "Love has infatuated her"

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"Infatuate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to elicit any woman's love, can perfectly infatuate her more and more, solely by courting her right; and all women who once start a man's love—no very difficult achievement—can get out of him, and do with him, anything possible she pleases. The charming and fascinating power of serpents over ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... there is in nature no other expedient to preserve us from everlasting confusion: But it is the height of all impertinency to conceive, that those which are a part of themselves, and can in so great a Body, have no other interests, should (without the manifest hand of God were in it to infatuate all your proceedings) fall into such exorbitant contradiction to their own good, as a child of four years old would not be guilty of; and as this Pamphleter wildly suggests in pp. 6. 11. 27, &c. did they steer their course by the known laws of the Land, and as ...

— An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) • John Evelyn

... And so thinks every sober-minded man. Now all my needs are satisfied through thee, And I have naught to fear; but were I king, My acts would oft run counter to my will. How could a title then have charms for me Above the sweets of boundless influence? I am not so infatuate as to grasp The shadow when I hold the substance fast. Now all men cry me Godspeed! wish me well, And every suitor seeks to gain my ear, If he would hope to win a grace from thee. Why should I leave the better, choose ...

— The Oedipus Trilogy • Sophocles

... as their husbands died And the strong Amazons died, had not one voice Of wisdom cried to stay their maddened feet, When with dissuading words Theano spake: "Wherefore, ah wherefore for the toil and strain Of battle's fearful tumult do ye yearn, Infatuate ones? Never your limbs have toiled In conflict yet. In utter ignorance Panting for labour unendurable, Ye rush on all-unthinking; for your strength Can never be as that of Danaan men, Men trained in daily battle. Amazons Have joyed in ruthless fight, in charging steeds, From ...

— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus

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