Citations:enervate

Verb

 * 1721, Montesquieu, Persian letters 107
 * You think that the arts enervate people, and are therefore the cause of the fall of empires. You speak of the fall of that of the ancient Persians, which was the result of their effeminacy
 * 1888, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race
 * dark memory, resting upon his conscience, served to augment his superstition and enervate the vigour of his resolves