Middle English Dictionary Entry
fatūāt ppl.
Entry Info
Forms | fatūāt ppl. |
Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Vexed or possessed with an evil spirit.
Associated quotations
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.389 : Fanus had a wife, Fatua by name, whiche was vexede moche with a spiritte, whereof peple so vexede now in this tyme bene seide to be fatuate [L fatuati] after the name of þat woman.