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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Passionate

Păs'sion-ate, a.

adjective

a. [L. Lat. passionatus, It. passionato, Fr. passionné, Sp. apasionado.]

Sense 1. Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; — applied to persons. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.

Sense 2. Showing or expressing passion; moved to strong feeling, love, desire, or the like; excited; vehement; warm; animated. “Indifferent and less passionate for the earthly.” Bp. Taylor.

Pā's'sion-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Obs.] 1. To affect with passion. 2. To express passionately. Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, That godly king and queen did passionate. Spenser.