Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HUM'BLE, v.t.

1. To abase; to reduce to a low state. This victory humbled the pride of Rome. The power of Rome was humbled, but not subdued.
2. To crush; to break; to subdue. The battle of Waterloo humbled the power of Buonaparte.
3. To mortify.
4. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride of; to reduce arrogance and self-dependence; to give a low opinion of one's moral worth; to make meek and submissive to the divine will; the evangelical sense. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. v. Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart. 2 Chron. xxxii.
5. To make to condescend. He humbles himself to speak to them.
6. To bring down; to lower; to reduce. The highest mountains may he humbled into valleys. Hakewill.
7. To deprive of chastity. Deut. xxi. To humble one's self, to repent; to afflict one's self for sin; to make contrite.