Crossword clues for infatuate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infatuate \In*fat"u*ate\ (?; 135), a. [L. infatuatus, p. p. of
infatuare to infatuate; pref. in- in + fatuus foolish. See
Fatuous.]
Infatuated.
--Bp. Hall.
Infatuate \In*fat"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infatuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Infatuating.]
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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.
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To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.
The people are . . . infatuated with the notion.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "turn (something) to foolishness, frustrate," from Latin infatuatus, past participle of infatuare "make a fool of," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + fatuus "foolish." Specific sense of "inspire (in someone) a foolish romantic passion" is from 1620s. Related: Infatuated; infatuating.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Infatuated; full of unreasoning love or attachment. v
(context transitive English) To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
WordNet
v. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her"
Usage examples of "infatuate".
Thus it came to pass that the infatuated monarch gave the impostor the suite formerly occupied by Marshal Saxe.
Tiretta was now left alone with his darling, who grew more infatuated with her Strephon every day, so well did he prove his love for her.
Remo knew that the Master of Sinanju had been infatuated with the Korean anchorwoman eyer since he had discovered her when she was a mere local anchor back in New York.
Like an infatuated lover who denies or excuses the flagrant faults of the beloved, I strove to palliate the inhumanity of the Star Maker, nay positively I gloried in it.
He had gambled and lost a great deal, and his brother was his most bitter enemy, because he was infatuated with the idea that he had tried to poison him.
This girl whom Croce had infatuated and deprived of her senses was exquisitely beautiful, but more charming than all her physical beauties were the nobleness of her presence and the sweetness of her disposition.
Perhaps Maddock became infatuated with her, and when she rejected him for this young Brody, he lost his head.
There was little doubt that Mana was totally infatuated with Shoshana.
Sanctum, and dispelling the habitual gloom of a College Hospitium, what chance would the sectarians of Wesley, or the infatuated followers even of that arch rhapsodist, Irving, have with the attractive eloquence and sound reasoning of true wit?
Surely among all those you can find someone other than Lisa Tambor to become infatuated with?
It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.
The two children were equally timid and artless, and equally infatuated with each other.
We lose sight of Palmyre Chocareille, called Gypsy, upon her release from prison, but we meet her again six months later, having made the acquaintance of a travelling agent named Caldas, who became infatuated with her beauty, and furnished her a house near the Bastille.
He was handsome, much infatuated with his own opinions, and an honest man, Adams believed.
Dobson was infatuated with her, and to be frank, Blythe was flattered.