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imbrute
imbrute, v. (ɪmˈbruːt) Also em-. [f. im-1 + brute n.1] 1. trans. To degrade to the level of a brute; to make bestial, brutalize.1640 Bp. Reynolds Passions xvi. 165 Wee finde how farre naturall corruption..can imbrute the Manners of Men. 1667 Milton P.L. ix. 166, I..am now constraind Into a Beast, an...
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imbrutement
imbrutement (ɪmˈbruːtmənt) [f. imbrute + -ment.] The action of imbrute v.; brutalization.a 1837 Sir S. E. Brydges cited in Worcester. 1869 Bushnell Wom. Suffrage i. 12 For poor women to justify their imbrutement in a specially disgusting livelihood.
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Cissy Fitzgerald
The constant repetitive image of Cissy's wink in her performance caused the stage comedian involuntarily to imbrute her own gestures.
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imbrutish
† imˈbrutish, v. Obs. rare. [f. im-1 + brutish a. Cf. embrutish.] = imbrute v. 1.1639 Laud Confer. w. Fisher §16. 60 All that have not imbrutished themselves and sunke below their species.
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embrutish
† emˈbrutish, v. Obs. rare. [f. en- + brute + -ish, after impoverish, etc.; cf. Fr. abrutiss-, abrutir.] trans. = imbrute.1639 W. Sclater (Jun.) Wor. Comm. Rew. 6 A person that is embrutished, and sunke below his species in vile affections.
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imbruted
imbruted, ppl. a. (ɪmˈbruːtɪd) Also em-. [f. imbrute + -ed1.] Degraded to the level of a brute; brutalized.1765 Beattie To Churchill 121 Thy gross imbruted sense. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 208 The fetisch of the imbruted African. 1835 Lytton Rienzi ii. vii, A degenerate and embruted peopl...
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im-
▪ I. im-1 assimilated form of the suffix in-2, before b, m, p. This assimilation took place in Latin during the later classical period, and remains in French and English (although in- (en-) was not infrequent before p in OF. and ME.). In words that survived in living use, L. in-, im- became in OF. e...
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cognate
cognate, a. and n. (ˈkɒgneɪt) Also (in sense B 1) cognat. [ad. L. cognātus, f. co- together + gnātus born, f. root gn-, gen-, gon- to produce. In Eng. the transferred sense appeared earliest.] A. adj. 1. Descended from a common ancestor; of the same stock or family.1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 78 S...
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incarnate
▪ I. incarnate, a. (ɪnˈkɑːnət) [ad. L. incarnāt-us made flesh (common in 4th c. in Christian writers), pa. pple. of incarnāre: see incarn. In sense 3 corresp. to F. incarnat, -ate, It. incarnato incarnate, flesh-coloured.] 1. Clothed or invested with flesh; embodied in flesh; in a human (or animal) ...
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