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imbecilitate

verb

  1. To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.

    obsolete, transitive

    The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl.

Where it comes from

From imbecility + -ate (verb-forming suffix); compare -itate and Medieval Latin imbēcillitō.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry imbecilitate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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