STULTIFY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Stultify

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/stˈəltəfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Stultify v. t. (past & past part. stultified; pres. part. stultifying)

To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

To regard as a fool, or as foolish. (R.) "The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own."

(Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

See images of 'Stultify'

Etymology of 'Stultify'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Stultify" Quotes from Famous Books

... after a fashion, by Lucy. When a girl of that class marries a gentleman, don't you see, and consents, too, mind you, to marry him privately, she can't expect to share much of her husband's company. She can't expect he should stultify himself by acknowledging her publicly before his own class. And, indeed, he always meant to acknowledge her in the end—after his father's death, when there was no fear of the Admiral's ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... turtle leaks out, as it were, on to the exterior world, and through which it again absorbs the exterior world into itself—"catching on" through them to things that are thus both turtle and not turtle at one and the same time—these holes stultify the armour, and show it to have been designed by a creature with more of faithfulness to a fixed idea, and hence one-sidedness, than of that quick sense of relative importances and their changes, which is the main factor of ...

— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... struggling for, and rather of more importance than generally come before County Meetings. The English legislature seems inclined to stultify our Law Authorities in their department; but let us at least try if they will listen to the united voice of a Nation in matters which so intimately concern its welfare, that almost every man must have formed a judgment on the subject, from something ...

— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury

... supported it and who had reported it, and who knew its merits, and the men who had voted for it in either House of Congress, could not well stultify themselves by changing their votes, although some of them did. I was situated very fortunately in that respect. I had been absent on a visit to Massachusetts when the bill passed. So I was not on record for it. I had given it no great attention. ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... could protest. He could not complain because these people were not apparently aware of the sacrifice he was making. He had come among them to perform a kindly act. He recognized that he must not stultify it by a show of irritation. He had precipitated himself into a game of which he did not know the rules. That was all. Next time he would know better. Next time he would send a clerk. But he was not without ...

— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis

More quotes...