单词 | imbrute |
释义 | imbrutev. 1. transitive. To degrade to the level of a brute; to make bestial, brutalize. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities > brutalize bestialize1610 unman1626 bestiate1628 embrutish1639 imbrutish1639 bebeast1640 imbrute1640 beast1646 brutify1668 brutalizea1704 embrutalize1876 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xvi. 165 Wee finde how farre naturall corruption..can imbrute the Manners of Men. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 166 I..am now constraind Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute . View more context for this quotation 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 24 Dismounted every Great and Glorious Aim; Embruted every Faculty divine. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost x. 267 To indulge his love of pleasure so as to soften, to debase, to imbrute himself. 2. intransitive. To sink or lapse to the level of a brute; to become bestial or degraded. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degenerate [verb (intransitive)] > become like a brute brutize1607 imbrute1637 brutalize1716 brutify1819 1637 J. Milton Comus 16 The soule growes clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes. a1760 I. H. Browne Fit of Gout in Poems (1768) 139 So when the mind imbrutes in sloth supine, Sharp pangs awake her energy Divine. Derivatives imˈbruting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > brutalizing brutification1687 brutalization1797 imbruting1809 imbrutementa1837 1809 A. Knox Let. 8 Mar. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 497 That embodying and embruting of the soul, which is the true antipode to pure and undefiled religion. 1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 164 One only..escapes from this embruting of the soul. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 253 The imbruting despotism of a barbarous conqueror. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1637 |
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