a. [f. (on analogy of infatuate) L. ad to + fatuus silly. There is no corresponding L. compound.] Infatuated.

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1834.  Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, II. V. ii. Wks. 1864, I. 259. By art of witchcraft so affatuate, That for his love they’d dress themselves in dowlas And fight with men of steel.

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