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/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.

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"Stultify" Quotes from Famous Books

... a way, an honest man. We can say that of him. Voltaire was, in his degree, honest too. Having said what M. Renan says, they did not stultify themselves logically. They honestly pronounced Christianity a delusion. We have respect for their consistency. But our modern man says that a cheat in religion is no cheat, a lie no lie, that a true saving faith can be built on a foundation of ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... you to let it take its chance. The book isn't worth special notice, and whoever undertook to review it for Fadge would either have to lie, or stultify ...

— New Grub Street • George Gissing

... elderly dog to sit up and beg, or to roll over twice, or to do other of the asinine things with which humans stultify the natural good sense of their canine chums, is as hard as to teach a sixty-year-old grave-digger to become ...

— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune

... told that the marriage of the hero is an indispensable condition of achieving the Quest, a detail which must have been taken over from an earlier version, as Gerbert proceeds to stultify himself by describing the solemnities of the marriage, and the ceremonial blessing of the nuptial couch, after which hero and heroine simultaneously agree to live a life of strict chastity, and are rewarded by the ...

— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston

... Virginia as a new State, not by virtue of any provision of the Constitution but under our absolute power which the laws of war give us in the circumstances in which we are placed. I shall vote for this bill upon that theory, and upon that alone. I will not stultify myself by supposing that we have any warrant in the Constitution for ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

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