stulted

English

Etymology

From Latin stultus

Verb

stulted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of stult

Adjective

stulted (comparative more stulted, superlative most stulted)

  1. Deprived of strength and vigor.
    • 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Mexico. 1883-1888:
      But Herrera, who so far had followed him pretty closely, maintains an even tenor, borrowing now from more varied sources wherewith to fill his bald and stulted decades.
    • 1916, Margaret Fuller, A New England Childhood, page 268:
      ...toward the whole of Norwich Town, which in truth was crude and stulted to one of his high breed and spirit.
    • 1975, Charles R. Wood, Evangelistic Sermon Outlines, →ISBN, page 11:
      This man has a stunted and stulted life.
    • 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, →ISBN:
      The sky was clear. The breeze stalled, stulted.

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