The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stultify \Stul"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stultified; p. pr. & vb. n. Stultifying.] [L. stultus foolish + -fy.]
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.-
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. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: stultify)
WordNet
v. prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"
cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple]
[also: stultified]
See stultify
Usage examples of "stultified".
The man is an addict, and his career is stultified, but he has conceived the perfect unit, and believes my brother can implement it.
And Goblin, Goblin staring at the screen, stultified by the patterns he must have been perceiving, Goblin quiet for all his struggle to understand why we were so stricken and so quiet.
Indeed the good deeds he did before he fell into sin have been all deadened and stultified and rendered null and void by the repeated sinning.
But for as much as the good deeds that men do while they are in a state of grace are all stultified by sin ensuing.
So they were trying to go west, Gloucester Road way, despite the opposition (frivolous and treacherous) of contrary traffic and stultified red signals.