stultify (stultifi)

t.; pret. and pp. stultified, ppr. stultifying. [ We stick at technical difficulties. I think there never was a people so choked and stultified by forms. Emerson , Affairs in Kansas. contrived... to stultify the mythology they profe ed to explain. Mythologists. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, I. 252. 2. To look upon as a fool; regard as foolish. [Rare.] The modern sciolist stultifies all understandings but his own, and that which he regards as his own. Hazlitt. (Imp. Dict.) To stultify one's self. (a) To deny, directly or by implication, what one has already a erted; expose one's self to the charge of self-contradiction. (b) In law, to allege one's own insanity.