Efferate

Quick meaning: Efferate is a verb meaning (obsolete) To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.

Meaning

(obsolete) To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.

Example Sentences

How hath it efferated ſome, and made them inſolent, fierce, froward!

’Tis a sign men have drunk in a false Religion, when their spirits are efferated, and grow Monsters in wickedness;

I am not ſo fooliſh tᵒ Hope, That, now that the Age is become ſo efferated by the late Civil War’ and ſo emboldned by their conſtant Impunity after whatſoever Provocations and Affrontings of Authority;

[…]; by which meanes he ſtill breaks out againe, and I know not whether more efferated by former attachings, or animated by his often diſchargings, he euer rampeth more feircely than before, and threatneth his accuſers, to ruine all that is holy.

Word Forms

• efferates
• efferating
• efferated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exestuate, ecstasize, passionate, esprise, enthuse, effuse.

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