Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of enfeeble.

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

  • transitive verb See enfeeble.

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  • verb Archaic form of enfeeble.

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Examples

  • By this manner of living, their blood is spoil'd and rendered thin beyond all proportion, so that it is constantly on the fret like bad small beer, and hence the constant slow fevers that wear down their constitutions, relax their nerves and infeeble the whole frame.

    Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

  • Let us remember, that pride and hatred invigorate the soul; and love and humility infeeble it.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

  • Nothing invigorates and exalts the mind equally with pride and vanity; though at the same time love or tenderness is rather found to weaken and infeeble it.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

  • Let us remember, that pride and hatred invigorate the soul; and love and humility infeeble it.

    A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

  • Nothing invigorates and exalts the mind equally with pride and vanity; though at the same time love or tenderness is rather found to weaken and infeeble it.

    A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

  • Where, on the contrary he passeth from Europe and Afrike vnto America ouer the Ocean, from whence it draweth and carieth with him abundance of moyst vapours, which doe qualifie and infeeble greatly the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Europe or Afrike: by how much the sunne in his diurnall course from east to west passeth over (for the most part) dry land and sandy countries, before he arriveth at the West of Europe or Afrike, whereby his motion increaseth heate, with little or no qualification by moyst vapours, where on the contraire, he passeth from Europe and Africa unto America over the ocean, from whence it draweth and carrieth with him abundance of moyst vapours, which doe qualifie and infeeble greatly the sunne's reverberation upon this countrey chiefly of

    The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901

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