stupid i tar i an (stupid i tar i an)

[ How often do history and the newspapers exhibit to us the spectacle of a heavy-headed stupid i tar i an in official station, veiling the sheerest incompetency in a mysterious sublimity of carriage! Whipple, Lit. and Life, p. 143. or material. This stupifieth the quicksilver that it runneth no more. Bacon, Physiol. Remains, Compounding of Metals. II. in trans. To become stupid or torpid; lose interest or sensibility; grow dull. [Rare.] I which live in the country without stupifying am not in darkne , but in shadow. Donne, Letters, iv. stupendt (stū-pend'), a . [= Sp. Pg. estupendo = It. stupendo , stupendus , astonishing: see stupendous .] Stupendous. IMG:content-2327.png:[blocks in formation] ception or understanding; mental or moral numbne . Our Church stands haltered, dumb, like a dumb ox; lowing only for provender (of tithes); content if it can have that; or, with dumb stupor , expecting its further doom. Carlyle , French Rev., I. ii. 3. under stuporous ). Anergic stupor. Same as stuporous insanity (which see, stuporous (stū'por-us), a. [ or months. called acute dementia, primary dementia, primary curable dementia, and anergic stupor. Stuporous insanity being a recoverable form, dementia would more properly include cases of traumatism resembling it. Alien. and Neurol ., IX. 458. stupose (stū'pos), a . [L. stupa, stuppa , tow (see st stupe1 ), +-0 stup +-ose.] In bot . and zool ., bearing tufts or mats of long hairs; composed of matted filaments like tow. = Compare Compare. stupeous . stuprate (stū'prāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. pp.stuprated, stupr ppr. stuprating . [ stupratus , pp. of stuprare It. stuprare Sp. Pg. estuprar ), defile, debauch, stuprum , defilement, dishonor.] is honor.] To debauch; ravish. stupration (stu-pra's hon), n. [L. as if * stupra tio (n-), stuprare , defile, debauch: see stuprate .] Violation of chastity by force; rape. stuprum (stū'prum), n. [NL., stuprum , defilement, dishonor.] 1. Stupration.-2. St In civil law, any union of the sexes forbidden by morality. stupulose (stu pū-lōs), a. [Dim. of stupose.] In entom., covered with short, fine, decumbent hairs; finely stupose.