Part 734

Macaulay.

And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.

E*ner"vate (?), a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.

En`er*va"tion (?), n. [L. enervatio: cf. F. énervation.] 1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.

E*ner"va*tive (?), a. Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

E*nerve" (?), v. t. [Cf. F. énerver. See Enervate.] To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.

E*nerv"ous (?), a. [L. enervis, enervus.] Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

En*fam"ish (?), v. t. To famish; to starve.

En*fect" (?), a. [See Infect, a.] Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En*fee"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeebled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeebling (?).] [OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble.] To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil.

Prescott.

Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.

En*fee"ble*ment (?), n. The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

En*fee"bler (?), n. One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

En*fee"blish, v. i. To enfeeble. [Obs.] Holland.

En*fel"oned (?), a. [Pref. en- + felon: cf. OF. enfelonner.] Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

En*feoff" (?; see Feoff, 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.] [Pref. en- + feoff, fief: cf. LL. infeofare, OF. enfeffer, enfeofer.] 1. (Law) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.

2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.]

Shak.

En*feoff"ment (?), n. (Law) (a) The act of enfeoffing. (b) The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

En*fes"ter (?), v. t. To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).

En*fet"ter (?), v. t. To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.

En*fe"ver (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + fever: cf. F. enfiévrer.] To excite fever in. [R.] A. Seward.

En*fierce" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfierced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enfiercing (?).] To make fierce. [Obs.] Spenser.