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English Dictionary: stultifying by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stultify \Stul"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stultified}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Stultifying}.] [L. stultus foolish + -fy.]
      1. To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by
            imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or
            conduct. --Burke.
  
      2. To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.]
  
                     The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but
                     his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
            --Hazlitt.
  
      3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that
            the performance of some act may be avoided.
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