The fight with his own brain was his greatest difficulty, and perhaps he showed as much power in compelling his active intellect to stultifyitself in absolute inactivity for the time, as he had ever shown in giving it free rein.
To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
It amounted to the same thing in many cases because Nature's law is progress or retrogression; to stand still is to stultify the law of the universe.
He will neither stultify Himself nor tantalise men by setting them on quests which end in disappointment.
He will not stultify Himself by making a man and then leaving him to struggle alone, as birds do with their young, as soon as they can fly.
If He is to be true to Himself, and not to stultify His past deliverances, He must save his suppliant now.
This to Northern view, was a sad relapse from that high moral tone earlier addressed to the South notifying slave-holders that England would not "stultify the policy of half a century for the sake of an extended cotton trade[79].
I come, not to stultify myself in the fumes of liquor, but to do you good.
It is to stultify oneself and to render one's author unintelligible.
Where dramatists in training waste their nervous energy and often stultify their best desires is in keeping critical tab upon themselves as they create.
The main point is: Don't stultify your creative instincts by trying to use critical training at the same time.
He that aims always at the performance of the oath he has taken, will assuredly find that God will not stultify Himself by failing to support him.
In order therefore not to stultify this common beginning, we must assume that in the clause 'For them that breath sang out' (Bri.
The permanent absence of children would stultify God's reason and character by rendering useless all that He is and all that He has made.
We find that if we do not neglect or stultify any portion of our nature, our insight grows.
He said it was "to pay the highest compliment to the institution of slavery," and "stultify ourselves.
The ballot for the negro was a logical necessity, and it was a matter of the least possible consequence whether the granting of it would "stultify ourselves" or not.
He was a self-declared suitor, a man who had boasted that no night was too wild for him to ride, and a refusal in such case wouldstultify his whole attitude and standing in that house.
They are painted red inside and white outside, so that they may not be conspicuous amongst ice, but the hunters stultify this idea to some extent by dressing themselves in dark colours.
To suppose that just at this point, in making its application, he turns aside without notice or explanation to an entirely different matter, is to stultify his reasoning.
To admit that the Israelite by virtue of his legal observances stood in a higher position than "sinners of the Gentiles," was to stultify the doctrine of the cross, to make Christ's death a gratuitous sacrifice.
He recognized that he must not stultify it by a show of irritation.
As I have done, and am doing what I think to be right, I cannot stultify myself by saying that I think I have been wrong.
Had he not quarrelled with every friend he possessed on this score; and should he now stultify himself in all those quarrels by admitting that he had been cruel, unjust, and needlessly jealous?
His conclusions may shock common-sense; and they may seem to stultify not only our observation of facts, but the testimony of our moral consciousness.
And, in a similar manner, clear knowledge that evil is illusion and that all things have their place in an infinite divine order would paralyze all moral effort, as well as stultify itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stultify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
