Defn: To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling;
to brutalize.
Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.
BRUTING
Bru"ting, n.
Defn: Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.
BRUTISH
Bru"tish, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.
Syn.
— Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous;
inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.
— Bru"tish*ly, adv.
— Bru"tish*ness, n.
BRUTISM
Bru"tism, n.
Defn: The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
BRYOLOGICAL
Bry*o*log"i*cal, a.
Defn: Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.