efferate
To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.
Verb
- To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.
- […]; 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,...
- Secondly, as the Stile, and subiect Matter of Stage-Playes is Scurrilous, and Obscene, so likewise it is Bloody, and Tyrannicall; breathing out Malice, Fury, Anger, Murther, Crueltie, Tyrannie, Treacherie, Frensie,...
- […]; but if hee had thought even by a civil analogie what theſe men muſt bee in their morals and religions that efferated by a private ſpleen, would give up their Nation to ruine, I believ, Hee would not have put...
Origin
From Latin efferātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“to make wild or savage, brutalize, barbarize; to make fierce, infuriate, madden”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin fer- + -ate.