The tendency of abstract thought to enervate the will is one of the real dangers of the highest education. From LearnThat.org. [Mark Pattison]
OT will someone tell Fiona Miller (on Daily Politics now) to look up the word "enervate" and use it correctly in future. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Fawkes' blog] Reference
The Kerry-Lieberman energy bill would enervate America. From Wordnik.com. [Generation Gap] Reference
The only way to enervate this stuff is through inoculation. From Wordnik.com. [A Mile High In Denver] Reference
Katie said, “I thought ‘enervate’ meant to weaken.”. From Wordnik.com. [mostly good girls] Reference
I remember one in particular that caused me problems: enervate. From Wordnik.com. [If you have a moment ...] Reference
Why does being black seem to motivate some, but enervate others?. From Wordnik.com. [A Place On ‘The Black List’] Reference
The siege of Stormgard continued to enervate Shadowspinner's armies. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
Heredity bugaboos dishearten, enervate, encourage excesses and neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
There are other Methods, I see, Cubbin, you have taken to enervate your. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
For, in the constitution of man, abstinence may enervate, weaken, and kill. From Wordnik.com. [On Ancient Medicine] Reference
The dictionary says it is a mistake to confuse to enervate with making nervous. From Wordnik.com. [FIFTH UJC CONGRESS CLOSING 6 APR] Reference
There is a point where the stimulating atmosphere of the salon begins to enervate. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
To enervate, irritate, or corrupt the body is to produce a like effect upon the mind. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Education which is really such does not tend to enervate but to strengthen the individual. From Wordnik.com. [The Children: Some Educational Problems] Reference
A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
The mild air seemed to enervate rather than to brace her system, and she grew daily more emaciated. From Wordnik.com. [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference
Therefore unless you resolve to go quite thro ', never weaken or enervate your Pastoral Language at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
They are full of weaknesses and pains that wear out life and enervate all their mental and spiritual powers. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Augustine's teaching provoked vigorous reactions from Christians who feared it would enervate spiritual effort. From Wordnik.com. [FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY] Reference
If any method could be devised to enervate the English colonies it would be to establish in them the Inquisition. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
To enervate: to debilitate, to reduce the strength of an argument, making something incorrect because of nervousness. From Wordnik.com. [FIFTH UJC CONGRESS CLOSING 6 APR] Reference
The soft, rich landscapes of Italy enervate, while the rough mountainous country of the North imparts force and vigor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Taken homoeopathically, it may be harmless; but if it become a habit, a necessity, it must vitiate, enervate, destroy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Curiously, governments think that things that don't agree with them probably debauch people or enervate the public good. From Wordnik.com. [Newspapers and You] Reference
And whilst others are left unto their liberty in their use, this is sufficient to enervate all pleas for their imposition. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
January 30th, 2009 at 8: 35 am www crybabypoker com says: www crybabypoker com … ethically alerter codewords enervate …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Frist told reporters] Reference
If we employ paid informers, we will let loose a disease upon our beloved homeland that will enervate it for decades to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Demosthenes and the Spartan; yet Leonidas is trampled by the timid slave, and Athens insulted by the servile, mindless, and enervate. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
Luxury and debauchery enervate the classes which indulge in them. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference
Luxury had already begun to enervate the hardy soldiery at the time of. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference
But the Fatherland is not spoiling or cosseting this man to an extent that will enervate him in the least. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
"Yet it seems to me that self-abuse in excess must be injurious to health, for it must weaken and enervate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Taken homeopathically, it may be harmless; but become a habit, a necessity, it must vitiate, enervate, destroy. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
Finger Arts has launched Hangman RSS HD for the iPad, using RSS newsfeeds to enervate challenges in the restyled game. From Wordnik.com. [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] Reference
The human energy that we exchange when we're actively teaching or learning is something that the environment can amplify or enervate. From Wordnik.com. [Management by Baseball] Reference
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