It does not weaken the power of thought, nor stultify the brain.

To have allowed Austria to do so would be to stultify himself in the eyes of Europe, to enrage Italians, and to lead France to ask what was the use of calling on her to make sacrifices for the overthrow of Austrian domination in the Peninsula if within a few months that domination was to be in a large measure restored.

It seemed to stultify the cry that had been trying to escape her.

It would be hard to say what Lilly might not have achieved if he had not stultified himself by his detestable pedantry: his songs (O si sic omnia) are hardly to be matched for silvery sweetness.

"Perhaps because I am an artist, and it seemed inartistic to interveneto interrupt the action at an inopportune momentto stultify what promised to be an unusually involved complication.

To pretend to believe a thing at which your reason revoltsto stultify your intellectthis, if it exists at all, is the unpardonable sin.

On my mentioning this circumstance to Dr. Johnson, he seemed much surprized that such a suit was admitted by the Scottish law, and observed, that 'In England no man is allowed to stultify himself.' Sir Allan, Lochbuy, and I, had the conversation chiefly to ourselves to-night: Dr. Johnson, being extremely weary, went to bed soon after supper.

'Blackstone says:From these loose authorities, which Fitzherbert does not hesitate to reject as being contrary to reason, the maxim that a man shall not stultify himself hath been handed down as settled law; though later opinions, feeling the inconvenience of the rule, have in many points endeavoured to restrain it.'

V. to be an imbecile &c adj.; have no brains, have no sense &c 498. trifle, drivel, radoter^, dote; ramble &c (madness) 503; play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's senses (insanity) 503; not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself &c 699; talk nonsense &c 497.

If that one fact ever leaked out it would at once stultify our endeavours and weaken our position.

He next, ere the report of the former blow had subsided, made a lunge at Mr. Brougham, and glanced an eye at Mr. Canning; mystified Mr. Coleridge, and stultified Lord Liverpool in his placein the Gallery.

He finds himself harassed by no end of devilish enemy stunts, to stultify which a fatherly all-wise War Office has given him an infinity of gadgets.

Why stultify thy boasted creed? Thine aid to them thou mightst have given, As France her aid once gave to thee; With them thy sons might well have striven, And their blood-rusted fetters riven; But why, in Heaven's name, should we Shoot men aspiring to be free?

But our translator is not content without making him stultify himself, and renders the words we have quoted, "A maggiore conferma referiro un fatto a me accaduto"; that is, he makes Benvenuto say, "I will report an incident that happened to me," and then go on to tell the story of Pietro di Abano, which had no more to do with him than with Signor Tamburini himself.

Hence, the President of the United States was induced, in his Message of 1835, to Congress, to charge them with plotting the massacre of the Southern planters; and even to stultify himself, by affirming that, for this purpose, they were engaged in sending, by mail, inflammatory appeals to the slavessending papers to men who could not read them, and by a conveyance through which they could not receive them!

Hence, the President of the United States was induced, in his Message of 1835, to Congress, to charge them with plotting the massacre of the Southern planters; and even to stultify himself, by affirming that, for this purpose, they were engaged in sending, by mail, inflammatory appeals to the slavessending papers to men who could not read them, and by a conveyance through which they could not receive them!

But once outside he promptly stultified himself, letting the repairs take care of themselves while he went in search of one Jud Byers.

But if a mind, totally void of sources of reflection, be shut up in a cell for years, or even for months, what can be expected but that every day will stultify its powers, and at last render it callous and unimpressable; or in the end imbecile, and so weak as to be irresponsible for its own acts!

A man of that kind did not belong in her sister-in-law's house, anyway, nor in her owna man who could appeal to a woman for a favourable opinion of himself, asking her to suspend her reason, stifle logic, stultify her own intelligence, and trust to a sentimental impulse that he deserved the toleration and consideration which he asked for. . . .

The feebleness and inconsistency of governors often stultify the most sensible foresight.

And all these cramped and stultified lives have not availed to make the world understand that women have had to pay for their celibacy!

To uphold such exclusion, is to lay the axe to the root of the spiritual Church, to stultify the apostolic preaching, and at this moment justify Mohammedans in persecuting Christians.

Too many forms to fill up, too many complicated registers to keep, too many meetings to attendthese things stultify the mind and crush the spirit.

she missed her opportunity of pointing out that this confession stultified every one of his previous utterances.

This is not admitting that there is no differencethat one religion is as good as another; we should stultify ourselves by making any such admission.