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To browse. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Edentata.

Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton.

Brutish quality; brutality.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

In a brutal manner; cruelly.

g sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

In a rude or violent manner.

Brutality. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.

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. Tay…

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.

The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. [R.] Brydges.

reatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.

e state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.