Menial work can stultify the mind. From LearnThat.org.
Nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : Menial work can stultify the mind. From Dictionary.com.
They stultify their principles, for by ordeal numerical. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870] Reference
Thou didst stultify thyself by thine instant acquiescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
This is a terribly damaging idea that would stultify debate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Marriage might ... and would ... stultify my mental processes. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
To have even one confidant would be to stultify the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
The hypothesis, makes the apostle to stultify himself as a logician. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
But you cannot afford to stultify yourselves by a sweeping generalization. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Disability of the Jew] Reference
Having said what M. Renan says, they did not stultify themselves logically. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Rather than go on suffering, he had learned to stultify himself to introspection. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
The polarization of ideas can only stultify the evolutionary development of society. From Wordnik.com. [Yoono: The Social Network Browser Plugin You’ve Been Waiting For] Reference
October 31, 2008 at 6:51 am needs sum tendrils to halp you stultify da LPG? canicanicani?. From Wordnik.com. [Halloween Pose - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
It occurred to him that modern education existed largely to stultify independent thought. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
I shall not publicly stultify myself by repudiating that action, but my vote, thank Heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Could Fewston afford to stultify himself after the advertisement he had so eagerly snatched?. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
I think it can be reasonably held in equity that no portion of law can stultify the enforcement of law. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of Canada in the Challenge of the East to the West] Reference
He said it was "to pay the highest compliment to the institution of slavery," and "stultify ourselves.". From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
That is to stultify the liberal arts and other professions and to stifle necessary sources of criticism. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
However, we can stultify progress by glutting it with law, either legislatively made or made in the courts. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Tax Payer's Stake in our Judicial System] Reference
Geigen ', afford to stultify great poetry by quoting from memory and getting the adjectives deplorably wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
He, too, had to listen day after day to long-drawn-out attempts to hurt people, and make them stultify themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
But only enough drinks to stultify all introspection had managed to drive away the enervating sorrow that remembering brought. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
What Marx opposed were working conditions that stultify the mind while divorcing the laborer from a final, satisfying product. From Wordnik.com. [Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho: How Can I Teach] Reference
Education was limited to the few, to the privileged, and it was an education intended to stultify rather than develop the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Prospects for Democracy in Greece] Reference
As N.B. Myers went over to the Hampton House it is not probable that he would stultify himself by voting for Hayes and acknowledging. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Only a small band of martyrs elected to bleed at the shrine of principle; they declined to stultify their stomachs with "horse soup.". From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Marks of reticence are on all those faces: lips shut, eyes shaded, each one of the five doing something to hide or stultify his knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
But the jury which tried that case probably consisted entirely of senators, who would not stultify their own proceedings by condemning him. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of a progressive thought?. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
He had made money, and had had splendid opportunities to make a great deal more if he had been willing to stultify his conscience, but that he had never been able to do. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
Thus, he would ask: ‘And will you, sir, now stultify yourself by telling me’ — and so forth, when the innocent man had not opened his lips, nor meant to open them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
In fact, if you sit outside of Bikini Village for 10 minutes, you will see every shape and size imaginable walk by, some of which will mystify and stultify, but walk by they do. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
It did not stultify creativity and a relaxed atmosphere was retained. From Wordnik.com. [Pipes Output] Reference
Providence does not comply with our predictions in order to stultify us. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
The regulations, the court concluded, are not to be applied to stultify that purpose. From Wordnik.com. [CFO.com: Today in Finance] Reference
Mr. JOSH FREEDOM DU LAC (Pop Music Critic, Washington Post): I'm here to stymie and stultify. From Wordnik.com. [New Music: Lyrics Born, Billy Bragg and More] Reference
He is embarrassed by earlier advice to Paige, and hates to retire from it and stultify himself. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
States-General by force of arms at this supreme moment was to stultify all government whatever. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"you stultify me," she had said, eschewing the upper case as she spoke with emotion not yet recollected in tranquility. From Wordnik.com. [With Robert Frost, at Wal-Mart] Reference
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