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Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.

Stupidity.

Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.

The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees.…

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.

To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

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

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Dullness; stupidity.

Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

lownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly. [R.] Blount.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.