Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: STU-PE-FAC'TIVE – STUT'TER-ING-LY
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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.]
- 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.
- 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.
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.]
- 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.
- 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.]
- Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as, the stupor of a limb. – Arbuthnot.
- 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.]
- Stoutness; hardiness; as, the sturdiness of a school-boy. – Locke.
- Brutal strength.
STUR'DY, a. [G. störrig, connected with storren, a stub.]
- 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.
- Strong; forcible; lusty; as, a sturdy lout. – Sidney.
- Violent; laid on with strength; as, sturdy strokes. – Spenser.
- 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.