Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STU-PE-FAC'TIVE, a.

Causing insensibility; deadening or blunting the sense of feeling or understanding.

STU'PE-FI-ER, n. [from stupefy.]

That which causes dullness or stupidity.

STU'PE-FY, v.t. [Fr. stupefier; L. stupefacio.]

1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive of sensibility. It is a great sin to attempt to stupefy the conscience. The fumes of passion intoxicate his discerning faculties, as the fumes of drink stupefy the brain. – South.
2. To deprive of material motion. It is not malleable nor fluent, but stupefied. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

STU'PE-FY-ING, ppr.

Rendering extremely dull or insensible. [It would be convenient to write stupifaction, stupifactive, and place these words after stupidly.]

STU-PEN'DOUS, a. [Low L. stupendus, from stupeo, to astonish.]

Literally, striking dumb by its magnitude; hence, astonishing; wonderful; amazing; particularly, of astonishing magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile; a stupendous edifice; a stupendous mountain; a stupendous bridge. – Milton. Dryden.

STU-PEN'DOUS-LY, adv.

In a manner to excite astonishment.

STU-PEN'DOUS-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being stupendous or astonishing.

STU'PID, a. [Fr. stupide; L. stupidus, from stupeo, to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop.]

1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish. O that men should be so stupid grown, / As to forsake the living God. – Milton. With wild surprise, / A moment stupid, motionless he stood. – Thomson.
2. Dull; heavy; formed without skill or genius. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes / Oppress us in corrupted times. – Swift.

STU-PID'I-TY, n. [Fr. stupidité; L. stupiditas.]

Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. – Dryden.

STU'PID-LY, adv.

With extreme dullness; with suspension or inactivity of understanding; sottishly; absurdly; without the exercise of reason or judgment. – Milton. Dryden.

STU'PID-NESS, n.

Stupidity.

STU'POR, n. [L.]

1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as, the stupor of a limb. – Arbuthnot.
2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

STU'PRATE, v.t. [L. stupro.]

To ravish; to debauch.

STU-PRA'TION, n.

Rape; violation of chastity by force.

STUR'DI-LY, adv. [from sturdy.]

Hardily; stoutly; lustily.

STUR'DI-NESS, n. [from sturdy.]

1. Stoutness; hardiness; as, the sturdiness of a school-boy. – Locke.
2. Brutal strength.

STUR'DY, a. [G. störrig, connected with storren, a stub.]

1. Hardy; stout; foolishly obstinate; implying coarseness; or rudeness. This must be done, and I would fain see / Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. – Hudibras. A sturdy hardened sinner advances to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first step. – Atterbury.
2. Strong; forcible; lusty; as, a sturdy lout. – Sidney.
3. Violent; laid on with strength; as, sturdy strokes. – Spenser.
4. Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak. He was not of a delicate contexture, his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. – Milton.

STUR'DY, n.

A disease in sheep, marked by dullness and stupor. – Cyc.

STUR'GEON, n. [Fr. esturgeon; Sp. esturion; It. storione; Low L. sturio; D. steur; G. stör; Sw. stör; the stirrer, one that turns up the mud; G. stören.]

A large fish of the genus Acipenser, caught in large rivers. Its flesh is valued for food. – Goldsmith.

STU-RI-O'NI-AN, n.

One of a family of cartilaginous fishes, of which the sturgeon is the type.

STURK, n. [Sax. styrc.]

A young ox or heifer. [Scot.]

STUT'TER, v.i. [D. stotteren; G. stottern; that is, to stop. Stut is not used.]

To stammer; to hesitate in uttering words. – Bacon.

STUT'TER-ER, n.

A stammerer.

STUT'TER-ING, ppr.

Stammering; speaking with hesitation.

STUT'TER-ING-LY, adv.

With stammering.