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Definition of Stultifies
1. stultify [v] - See also: stultify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stultifies
Literary usage of Stultifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons of the World-war by Augustin Frédéric Hamon (1919)
"... easy to govern—Opposition between autocratic methods of government and democratic
habits and principles— The possession of power stultifies the mind—The ..."
2. Statement in Reply to the Suggestions of the Interstate Commerce Commission by Joseph Nimmo (1892)
"Clearly the Commission stultifies itself in its attempt to turn my argument
against me. ... stultifies ..."
3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1890)
"that it positively stultifies itself when greatly enlarging the fixed grants in
support of education, yet making them all variable. ..."
4. Trial of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.: Rector of the Church of the Holy by Horatio Potter, Alfred Stubbs, Edward B. Boggs, Warburton, Bonynge and Devine (1868)
"It additionally stultifies the legislation of the Church by imputing to it the
intent to extend the jurisdiction of the clergy ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"One who or that which stultifies. stultify (stul'ti-fi), rt ; prêt, ...
stultifies all understandings but his own, and that which he regards as his own. ..."
6. The American Journal of Clinical Medicine (1906)
"Dr. John H. Musser, Philadelphia, said that the nostrum evil stultifies the ...
Seventh, the nostrum evil stultifies physicians, because it makes them ..."
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