Hypertext Webster Gateway: "enervate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enervated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Enervating}.] [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr.
enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See {Nerve}.]
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render
feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral
powers of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. --Dryden.
Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
enervate
v 1: weaken mentally or morally
2: disturb the composure of [syn: {faze}, {unnerve}, {unsettle}]
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