What is "enervate"

Usage examples of "enervate".

With such a record at the age of thirty-one, it was felt that a considerable career lay before him, and no one was surprised when he was elected to the curatorship of the Belmore Street Museum, which carries with it the lectureship at the Oriental College, and an income which has sunk with the fall in land, but which still remains at that ideal sum which is large enough to encourage an investigator, but not so large as to enervate him.

Nicolai took a hit of his cigarette and let smoke leak out between his lips, as if too enervated to exhale properly.

Colangelo let out an enervated sigh, perhaps signaling an unraveling of restraint, and rushed at me, slashing with the chisel.

In tropical regions the inhabitants are enervated, effeminate, and sensual.

If there is any poor mortal who can not afford to be deprived of the aid of a sympathizing Saviour, it is one who has enervated his will, degraded his soul, and depraved his body by the vile habit of self-abuse.

Unchaste dreams made her often dread to sleep, as she awoke from these unconscious lapses enervated, weak, and prostrated as though she had actually transgressed.

The causes are tight lacing, prolapse of the abdominal organs, weakness of the supporting ligaments, and enervating habits.

In the latter case, and when only occurring at long intervals, the emissions are not followed by any perceptible enervating or weakening effects.

Galen down to the present day, about the pernicious influence of this enervating indulgence, and its strong propensity to generate the very worst and most formidable kinds of insanity.

Since there is an intimate relation between mind and body, when the body is enfeebled the mind becomes enervated.

The priest imagined busloads of pilgrims bent on divinely inspired chastisements and evangelical devotional fever, hailing the advent of Mother Mary, saluting a cardboard ephemeral church, Ann as substitute for authentic worship, for the mundane daily variety of faith that composed his own enervated ministry.

To accomplish this design, he studied to protect his industrious subjects, and to moderate the violence, without enervating the valor, of his soldiers, who were maintained for the public defence.

An interminable period of monotony lived in the eternal mists, swirling with sluggish dankness, enervating, miasmatic, pulsant with the secret whisperings of mephitic lifeforms.

A feeble senate and enervated people cheerfully acquiesced in the pleasing illusion, as long as it was supported by the virtue, or even by the prudence, of the successors of Augustus.

That, Dougherty thought to himself as he drove downtown, is probably the most enervating, the most spine softening, the most weakening thing that can happen to a man: to know that his wife and children are sitting with cocked heads listening for the sound of the shot that will kill him.