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infatuate

[ verb in-fach-oo-eyt; adjective noun in-fach-oo-it, -eyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, in·fat·u·at·ed, in·fat·u·at·ing.

infatuate

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin infatuātus, past participle of infatuāre. See in- ², fatuous, -ate ¹

C16: from Latin infatuāre, from in- ² + fatuus fatuous

Infatuate, who from such a good estrange Your hearts, and bend your gaze on vanity, Alas for you!

But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.

Yet we urge it on, mindless and infatuate, and plant the ill-ominous thing in our hallowed citadel.

Will it be believed that the infatuate Master Cino spent the rest of the night in a rapture of poetry?

After a month of these a fastidious writer may well infatuate a reviewer.

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