Definition of "dementate" []

• To dement, to make crazy. (verb)

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• "Astolpho, that English duke in Ariosto, which never sounded but all his auditors were mad, and for fear ready to make away with themselves; [771] or landed in the mad haven in the Euxine sea of Daphnis insana, which had a secret quality to dementate; they are a company of giddy-heads, afternoon men, it is"
• "Apostles 'time, many Antichrists and heretics' were abroad, many sprung up since, many now present, and will be to the world's end, to dementate men's minds, to seduce and captivate their souls."
• ""Whom the Gods wish to ruin, they first dementate!" exclaimed"