embruted

English

Verb

embruted

1. simple past and past participle of embrute

Adjective

embruted (comparative more embruted, superlative most embruted)

1. Brought to the level of a brute; brutalized.
   • 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter X, pages 32–33:

     [W]oman […] is required to moralize, ſentimentalize herſelf to ſtone, and pine her life away, labouring to reform her embruted mate.