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Definition of Hebetation
1. n. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
Definition of Hebetation
1. Noun. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being blunted or dulled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hebetation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebetation
Literary usage of Hebetation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... purging the Globe, by the death or the hebetation of such as endeavor to debase
the Truth, or snatch it from our hands." And so the catastrophe ends by ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1873)
"... or even the designed hebetation of a venomous and despotic hierarchy; and
finally because he polemicized strongly against Roman Catholicism, ..."
3. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, William Alfred Packard (1876)
"... which men dwelling on the rnde highlands, and compelled to work hard for their
daily bread, might be preserved from spiritual hebetation and barbarism. ..."
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