E*ner"vate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enervating.] [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr. enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See Nerve.]
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness.
Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
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E*ner"vate (?), a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
Pope.
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