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Nerved.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

ender feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

Enervate. [Obs.]

Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard.

less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or first cranial) nerves, and sensitive to odoriferous particles conveyed to it in the air or in water.

To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

Same as Trinervate.

weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Neh. vi. 9.…