stulted
English
Etymology
Verb
stulted
- simple past and past participle of stult
Adjective
stulted (comparative more stulted, superlative most stulted)
- Deprived of strength and vigor.
- 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Mexico. 1883-1888:
- But Herrera, who so far had followed him pretty closely, maintains an even tenor, borrowing now from more varied sources wherewith to fill his bald and stulted decades.
- 1916, Margaret Fuller, A New England Childhood, page 268:
- ...toward the whole of Norwich Town, which in truth was crude and stulted to one of his high breed and spirit.
- 1975, Charles R. Wood, Evangelistic Sermon Outlines, →ISBN, page 11:
- This man has a stunted and stulted life.
- 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, →ISBN:
- The sky was clear. The breeze stalled, stulted.