I still felt tired and unable to do a thing, possessed by an unmistakable hebetude. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
Greece, and, what is worse, from a natural or habitual hebetude, not very adroit, at learning any Thing. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
Words like Git, hebetude, zip in the political sense and many others are explained in brief and charming essays. From Wordnik.com. [Oh joy!] Reference
Eastern government rested not so much on consent or force, as on the common supinity, hebetude, lack-a-daisiness, which gave a minority undue effect. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Torpidity of body and hebetude of mind are the effects thereof, which disappear under bodily labor, because that expands the lungs, vitalizes the blood, and wakes him up to a sense of pleasure and happiness unknown to him in the vegeto-animal or hibernating state. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
That his isolation from the stirring contact of competition, that his utter disregard of contemporary events, allowed his mind, which for perfect health's sake requires constantly-renewed impulses from without, to subside into comparative hebetude, there can be no doubt whatever. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
They turned their backs on one another and sunk into a collective hebetude. From Wordnik.com. [Waxy.org Links] Reference
We condescendingly bemoan the hebetude of those who could believe anything but our perspicacious positions. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest on Air America] Reference
As it is, he has some difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his intellect, and the meanness of his subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
He sat upon a low chair, his long legs, his violet-circled eyes staring out with a look of hebetude and overwhelming fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
A thoriated independent financial advice of hebetude in the limeira astern from synanceja for my magisterially cd that were on amorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Summer alone could bring them together again -- the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
The souls had made the efforts required of them, the miracles had been worked, and now the relaxing was beginning amidst a hebetude tinged with profound relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference
The leaden weight of an irremediable idleness descended upon General Feraud, who having no resources within himself sank into a state of awe-inspiring hebetude. From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
Now that his mariner's nose was turned toward the sea once again after his two years of landsman's hebetude, all his seaman's instinct, all his seaman's caution, revived. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
Page 125 here, together with their nests and eggs; still nothing appeared to interest my guest or lessen what I was rapidly beginning to regard as a case of hebetude, pure and simple. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
If the flowers were not perishable, we should cease to contemplate their beauty, either blinded by the passion for hoarding the bodies of them, or dulled by the hebetude of commonplaceness that the constant presence of them would occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish, Complete] Reference
It would be a supposition attended with very little probability to believe that a complete and full formed spirit existed in every infant, but that it was clogged and impeded in its operations during the first twenty years of life by the weakness, or hebetude, of the organs in which it was enclosed. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Principle of Population] Reference
The dawn of puberty, although perhaps marked by a certain moral hebetude, is soon followed by a stormy period of great agitation, when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for its possession, and when there is peculiar proneness to be either very good or very bad. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Your love of repose will lead, in its progress, to a suspension of healthy exercise, a relaxation of mind, an indifference to everything around you, and finally to a debility of body, and hebetude of mind, the farthest of all things from the happiness which the well-regulated indulgences of Epicurus ensure; fortitude, you know, is one of his four cardinal virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
(Cartwright, 2001, p. 1) Dr. Cartwright also diagnosed Dysaethesia Aethiopica, or ••• "hebetude of the mind and obtuse sensibility of the body - Dr. Cartwright was so a disease peculiar to Negroes called by overseers-Rascality." helpful as to identify (Cartwright, 2001, p. 2) Dysethesia Aethiopica differed from preventive measures other species of mental disease since physical signs and lesions for dealing with potential accompanied it. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Fear naught, for thou art safe from hurt, and leave this hebetude for ’tis a bad habit. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
+sensitiveness+ of the +auditory apparatus+ (deafness); +feebleness+ of +voice+; +mental preoccupation+, +hebetude+ of +mind+, +confusion+ of +ideas+, and a +profound melancholy+. From Wordnik.com. [Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.] Reference
A complete and full formed spirit existed in every infant, but that it was clogged and impeded in its operations during the first twenty years of life by the weakness, or hebetude, of the organs in which it was enclosed. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Principle of Population] Reference
If force be used to make them do more, they invariably do less and less, until they fall into a state of impassivity, in which they are more plague than profit -- worthless as laborers, insensible and indifferent to punishment, or even to life; or, in other words, they fall into the disease which I have named Dysesthæsia Ethiopica, characterized by hebetude of mind and insensibility of body, caused by over working and bad treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
(16) Insensibility, melancholia, hebetude; ordinary mental tumult and more elaborate physical vexations (boils, a variety of thrip that caused the skin of an unfaithful lover to erupt in a spectacular rash, the color of violet mallows)–Saloona Morn cultivated these in her parterre in the shadow of Cobalt Mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday Night Songs of the Dying Earth Rhapsodic Cockney Remix] Reference
(hebetude = dullness, stupidity). From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
hebetude = dull. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » VIDEO: Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down Fox News] Reference
Aside from being a big tree hanging critter called this because he's slow -- that's what "sloth" means, from the Old English -- "slow" plus "th" -- the word has come to mean other things: "Laziness, idleness, indolence, slothfulness, inactivity,inertia, sluggishness, shiftlessness, apathy, acedia, listlessness, lassitude, lethargy, languor, torpidity; literary hebetude.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
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