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Stupration.

Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.

Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion. Bp. Wilkins.

Having the ratio of one to seven. Bp. Wilkins.

Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion. Bp. Wilkins.

The act of tittuping; lively, gay, or restless behavior or gait; a prance or caper. [Written also titup.]

Given to tittuping; gay; lively; prancing; also, shaky; unsteady.

Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.

To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.

ontaining, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. -- Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly, adv. Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities. B. Jonson.

One who vituperates, or censures abusively.

Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.]

A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.

Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

Stupidity.

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.