Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make mad or insane; dement.
  • Demented; mad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Deprived of reason.
  • transitive verb rare To deprive of reason; to dement.

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  • verb obsolete To dement, to make crazy.

Etymologies

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From the participle stem of Latin dementare.

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Examples

  • 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

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • "Whom the Gods wish to ruin, they first dementate!" exclaimed

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

  • Convince, or dominate, or dementate him to write a bad review (2 XP).

    IGN Complete 2009

  • You can use dominate to make him go to sleep or dementate to make him think he is a frog or avoid him altogether.

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  • Persuade, seduce, intimidate, dominate or dementate him to give you his SCREENPLAY (2 XP).

    IGN Complete 2009

  • If you're a Malkavian you can dementate them to kill each other.

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  • If you are a Malkavian you'll have an insight that he's hiding something and you can dementate the information out of him.

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  • You can persuade/dementate/dominate her to let you inside.

    IGN Complete 2009

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