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Having been made stupid.

Quality of being stupid.

One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.

tonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous sum." Macaulay. All are but parts of one stupendous whole. Pope. -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. -- Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

y dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. Thomson.

The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

See Stupefy.

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

To ravish; to debauch. [R.] Heywood.

Violation of chastity by force; rape. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Stupration.

Containing one part of ten.

Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two. Subduple ratio, the ratio of 1 to 2: thus, 3:6 is a subduple ratio, as 6:3 is a duple ratio.

Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios. Subduplicate ratio, the ratio of the square roots, or the square root of a ratio; thus, the subduplicate ratio of a to b is *a to *b, or *a/b.

A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.

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

Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four; as, subquadruple proportion. Bp. Wilkins.