infatuating

Verb

infatuate (third-person singular simple present infatuates, present participle infatuating, simple past and past participle infatuated)

1. (transitive) To inspire with unreasoning love, attachment or enthusiasm.
   • If the mine was a “developed” one, and had no pay ore to show (and of course it hadn’t), we praised the tunnel; said it was one of the most infatuating tunnels in the land; driveled and driveled about the tunnel till we ran entirely out of ecstasies—but never said a word about the rock.1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIV, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 308
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make foolish.
   • […] wee beggard our selues by hearkning after false riches, and infatuated our selues by hearkning after false knowledge.1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, London: Thomas Jones, pages 3–4

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