stultified

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stultify

comparative more stultified · superlative most stultified

1. Having been stultified or brought to a stop; stymied.

   Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150

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   Cora only stood there, letting him talk. She may have been a stultified neophyte in the practise of her art, but at least she had the devilish ingenuity to explode an emotional bomb under Bradly's male innocence and blow its defences to tatters.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962

2. Made dull or unable to think and act properly; stupefied.

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   An American sailor, who was cast away on the shore of Africa, where he was kept in slavery for three years, was, at the expiration of that period, found to be imbruted and stultified—he had lost all reasoning power; and having forgotten his native language, could only utter some savage gibberish between Arabic and English, which nobody could understand, and which even he himself found difficulty in pronouncing.

   1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office