bryology (brioloji)

[ IMG:content-2666.png:[blocks in formation] 5. Not a ociated with intelligence or intellectual effort; unintelligent; irrational. A more legitimate kind of valour that, showing itself against the untamed forests and dark brute Powers of nature, to conquer nature for us. Carlyle. 6. Harsh; crude. [Rare.] The brute fact is expre ed in the phrase "One man's meat is another man's poison." O. W. Holmes , A Mortal Antipathy, vii. =Syn. Brute Brutish , Brutal , Beastly , Bestial . Brute is the most general of these words, and remains nearest to the distinguishing difference between man and beast, irrationality: as, brute force. Brutish is especially uncultured, stupid, groveling: as, brutes and still more brutish men. Brutal implies cruelty or lack of feeling: as, brutal language or conduct. Beastly expre es that which is altogether unworthy of a man, especially that which is filthy and disgusting in conduct or manner of life. Bestial is applied chiefly to that which is carnal, sensual, lascivious: as, bestial vices or appetites. The feats of Hercules. were triumphs of brute force. Sumner, Fame and Glory. The brutish , the animal instincts, as is often the case, had been developed earlier than the intellectual qualities. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xxi. To mask. Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal. Bombarding of Cadiz; a cruel and brutish way of mak- ing war, first begun by the French. Evelyn , Diary, August 25, 1695. Not riches Can purchase him, nor honours, peaceably, And force were brutish . Fletcher (and another ?), Nice Valour, iv. 1. (b) Gro ; carnal; bestial. It is the brutish love of this world that is blind. Baxter, Saint's Rest, xiv. (c) Uncultured; unrefined; ignorant; stupid; insensible. Brutes and brutish men are commonly more able to bear pain than others. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, They were not so brutish that they could be ignorant to call upon the name of God. Hooker , Eccles. Pol., v. § 35. =Syn. Brutal , Beastly , etc. (see brute ), dull, barbarous, animal, sensual. brutishly (brö'tish-li), adv. In a brutish manner; gro ly; irrationally; stupidly; savagely. IMG:content-2667.png:[blocks in formation] + bryonin, bi,bryonine (brī'ō-nin), n. [