effascinate
English
Etymology
Latin effascinare.
Verb
effascinate (third-person singular simple present effascinates, present participle effascinating, simple past and past participle effascinated)
- (obsolete) To charm; to bewitch.
- 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus
- [they] were deluded, effascinated and befooled with his [Descartes'] jocular Subtilty and prestigious Abstractions there
- 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus
References
- effascinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- caffeinates