stuntness 
Short srlitrllrrs are ]iM-v:ilrnt ill Dili 
ones are In (Jennaii. Ill all tilings we Incline to rn 
and stun/ness. J. AVi/'/-. 
Stupa 1 (Klu'pii), it. ; pi. xtiip.T (-}). (I/.: sec 
xtupi'l.] 1. Same ;is W /'. 2. In h/., t lifted 
or matted filamentous matter like t<>\\. 
stupa-' (sto'piil, ii. [< Skt. ulii/iii (> Hind. hi/i, 
> K. ?"/ : sec Inpr), :i iiioiuil, mound, iiccuinu- 
lation.] In liuililliinl itrrh., one of a class of 
dome-like edifices creeled in honor of some 
event, or as ii monument to mark sacred spot. 
The sense is sometimes extended to include the dagoha, 
nr shrine containing n relic of Buddha (see daynba). Also 
culled tope. See lindilh /./ <trrliil> , !/,> (l>), umler Itiniillti*!. 
stupe 1 (stup), H. [< \i. tiliijni, stuppii, < Or. 
nri'irxr/, the coarse jmrt of flax, tow. Cf. ulujf. 
tl'ip.] 1. A pledget of tow, flannel, or simi- 
lar material, used as a dressing in treating a 
wound. 
The several xtiipai n\nl dressings being skilfully applied, 
the children were ordered to their respective beds. 
Brooke, Fool of Quality, 111. 
2. Flannel or other cloth wrung out of hot wa- 
ter and applied as a fomentation. It may be 
sprinkled with some active substance, as tur- 
pentine. 
Turpentine stupes npplicd over the chest. 
J. M. Carnochan. Operative Surgery, p. ISO. 
stupe 1 (stup), v. t. ; pret. and pp. stuped, ppr. 
stupiui/. [< xtiipe^-, .] To apply a stupe to; 
foment. Wiseman, Surgery. 
stupe 2 (stup), n. [An abbf. of stupid.] A stu- 
pid person. [Colloq.] 
Was ever such a poor stupe ! 
Bickersta/, Love in a Village, il. '>. 
stupefacient (stu-pe-fa'shient), a. and n. [< L. 
xtnprfucit'H(t-)s, ppr! of stupefacere, make stupid 
or senseless: see stupefy.] I. . Having a 
stupefying power. 
II. n. A medicine which produces stupor or 
insensibility ; a narcotic. 
stupefaction (stu-pe-fak'shon), n. [= F. stupe- 
faction = Sp. estupc faction = Pg. estupefaeq&o 
= It. stupcfazione, < L. stupefacere, stupefy: see 
stupefy.] 1 . The act of stupefying, or the state 
of being stupefied. 2. A stolid or senseless 
state; torpor; insensibility; stupidity. 
Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hard- 
ness and stupefaction upon it. South. 
Stupefaction is not resignation ; and it is stupefaction to 
remain in ignorance. Qeorge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, v. ::. 
stupefactiye (stu-pe-fak'tiv), a. and . [=OF. 
stupcfactif, F. stupefactif= Sp. Pg. estupefactivo 
= It. stupefattii'o, < ML. stupefactieus, serving 
to stupefy, < L. stupefactus, pp. of stupefacfrc, 
stupefy: see stupefy.] I. a. Causing insensi- 
bility ; deadening or blunting the sense of feel- 
ing or the understanding; stupefaeient. 
II. n. That which stupefies; specifically, a 
medicine that produces stupor; a stupefacient. 
[Rare.] 
The operation of opium and stupefactives upon the 
spirits of living creatures. Bacon, Nat. Hist., $ 74. 
stupefiedness (stu'pe-fid-nes), n. The state of 
being stupefied ; stupefaction ; insensibility. 
We know that Insensibility of pain may as well proceed 
from the deadneas and stupifiednew of the part as from a 
perfect and unmolested health. Boyle, Works, VI. 0. 
stupefier (stu'pe-fi-6r), . [< stupefy + -erl.] 
One who or that which stupefies, or makes in- 
sensible or stupid. 
stupefy (stu'pe-fi), r. ; pret. and pp. stupefied, 
ppr. stupefying'. [Formerly also stupify; = F. 
stupe'fier (< L. as if *stupeficare), equiv. to It. 
stupefare, < L. stupefacere, make senseless, 
deaden, benumb, stupefy, < stupere, be struck 
senseless, -I- facere, make (see -/#).] I. trans. 
1. To make stupid or torpid ; blunt the facul- 
ties of; deprive of sensibility by any means; 
make dull or dead to external influences: as, 
to be stupefied by a blow on the head, by strong 
drink, or by grief. 
The dead-nnmbing night-shade, 
The stupefying hemlock, adder's tongue. 
And martagan. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, 11. 2. 
His anxiety stupefied instead of quickening his senses. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xlv. 
2f. To deprive of mobility : said of a substance 
or material. 
This stupijieth the quicksilver that it runneth no more. 
Bacon, Physiol. Remains, Compounding of Metals. 
II. in trans. To become stupid or torpid; lose 
interest or sensibility; grow dull. [Rare.] 
I which live in the country without stupefying am not 
In darkness, but in shadow. Donne, Letters, Iv. 
stupendt (stu-pencl'), n. [= Sp. Pg. estupendo 
= It. stiipi'inlo, < L. xtiipfiidux, astonishing: see 
s.] Stupendous. 
Tin- It ins !i.nl their public baths very sumptuous and 
Ktiipend. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. li^'i. 
StUpendiOUSt (stu-pen'di-us), n. [An erroneous 
form fi}r Klii/ii'iiiloii.-'.] Stupendous. 
Tin-re waft not one Almighty to begin 
The nn-at xtu]H'/i<tini/>t \Vorke. 
tlriftriKHt. Hierarehy of Angels, p. 1(1. 
Stupendiouslyt(stn-pen'di-ns-li), inli: Stupeii- 
dously. .S'(i(/i/x, Paraph, upon Lamentation*. 
stupendlyt (stfi-pend Ii), tnlr. Stupendously; 
amazingly. 
The Britons are so stuprtully superstitious In their cere- 
monies that they go beyond those 1'ersians. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. .:'.<. 
stupendous (stu-pen'dus), n. [< L. xtii/nmlitx, 
amazing, astonishing, fut. part. pass. olfttui>rn; 
be stunned or astonished : see stupid.] Causing 
stupor or astonishment ; astounding; aina/in<_'; 
specifically, astonishing from greatness in ex- 
tent or degree; of wonderful magnitude; im- 
mense; prodigious: as, a stupendous work of 
nature or art; a stupi'iidiiitx blunder. 
All are hut parts of one stupendous whole. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 267. 
Like reptiles in a corner of some stupendous palace, we 
peep from our holes. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xxil. 
How stupendous a mystery is the incarnation and surfer- 
Ings of the Sou of God ! 
J. II. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 200. 
stupendously (stu-pen'dus-li), adv. In a stu- 
pendous manner. 
stupendousness (stu-pen'dus-nes), . The 
character or state of being stupendous. Bailei/, 
1727. 
stupent (stu'pent), a. [< L. stupen(t-)s, ppr. of 
stupere, be struck senseless, be stunned or as- 
tonished.] Struck with stupor ; stunned ; dum- 
founded; aghast. [Rare.] 
We will say mournfully, In the presence of Heaven and 
Earth, that we stand speechless, stupent, and know not 
what to say ! Carlyle. (Imp. Diet.) 
stupeous (stu'pe-us), a. [< L. stupa, stuppa, 
tow : see stupei.] i n entom. , covered with long, 
loose scales, like tow, as the palpi of some lepi- 
dopterous insects ; stupose. 
stupid (stu'pid), a. and w. [= F. stupide = 
Sp. esttipido = Pg. estupido = It. stupido, < L. 
xtiijiidus, struck senseless, amazed, confound- 
ed, stupid, stolid, < stupere, be amazed or con- 
founded, be struck senseless: see stupent.] 
1. a. 1. In a state of stupor; having the facul- 
ties deadened or dulled; stupefied, either per- 
manently or temporarily ; benumbed. 
Is he not stupid 
With age and altering rheums? 
Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 409. 
One cannot weep, his fears congeal his grief; 
But, stupid, with dry eyes expects his fate. 
Dryden, Ceyx and Alcyone, 1. 179. 
2. Lacking ordinary activity of mind; dull in 
ideas or expression ; slow-witted; obtuse ; crass. 
A man who cannot write with wit on a proper subject 
is dull and stupid. Addiaon, Spectator, No. 291. 
A stupid preacher of unrighteousness, who would con- 
stantly make them yawn. Whipple, Memoir of Starr King. 
3. Characterized by mental dullness orinanity ; 
witless ; senseless ; foolish ; inane : as, a stupid 
joke ; a stupid book ; stupid fears. 
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes 
Oppress us In corrupted times. Swift. 
=Syn. 1. Heavy, dull, drowsy, lethargic, comatose, tor- 
pid. 2. Muddy-brained, muddled. 3. Silly, Foolish, 
etc. (see absurd); flat, tame, humdrum, pointless, pro- 
saic. See list under foolish. 
II. n. A stupid or humdrum persoii ; a block- 
head; a dunce. [Colloq.] 
Tom . . . Inconsiderately laughed when her houses [of 
cards] fell, and told her she was "a stupid." 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 9. 
Stupiditarian (stu-pid-i-ta'ri-an), n. [< stupid- 
ity + -arian.] A person characterized by stu- 
pidity ; one who thinks or acts stupidly ; a dul- 
lard. [Rare.] 
How often do history and the newspapers exhibit to us 
the spectacle of a heavy-headed Stupiditarian in official 
station, veiling the sheerest incompetency in a mysterious 
sublimity of carriage ! Whipple, Lit. and Life, p. 143. 
stupidity (stu-pid'i-ti), . [= F. stupidite = 
It. stupiditd, < L. gtupidita(t-)s, senselessness, 
dullness, < stupidus, senseless, stupid: see 
stupid.] 1. A state of stupor or stupefaction; 
torpidity of feeling or of mind. [Rare.] 
Past admiration strikes me, Joined with fear. 
Chaptnan. 
2. The character or quality of being stupid ; 
extreme dullness of perception or understand- 
ing; inanity; crass ignorance. 
sturdy 
Tin- mind '.unlit not to In: r.-diu:. il to >ri//',/i/y, lint to 
retain pli-jisuiv. Harmi. Advancement of Learning, ii. 
A consideration of the fal ,-nri>i'l*i'/ ;MH| ros.^ iu'Mnr.un , 
colicmilliK what iniporlK IIH-II most t" know. 
flttrkf, Kev. in Fnuir,-. 
Forgetting a tine flourishing growth of ><fi/j,iilili/ ihcir 
is nothing like jMMlliliK out on a ininil a uil amount ot 
subject in which it feels no inter, ^i. 
(;...,, /;/,/, Mill on the Klos, v. _>. 
^Syn. s,-e .<'/,<'. 
Stupidly (*tn'pid-li), in/r. In a stupid manner 
or degree ; so as to be or appear stupid, dazed, 
or foolish; with stupidity: as, xtupidly drunk: 
to be nlii/iiilli/ cautious ; to speak stupidly. 
stupidness (stu'pid-nc.-), . The quality oi 
being stupid; stupidity. [Knre.] 
stupifiednesst, stupifyt, etc. Erroneous spell- 
ings of xti/pi-fii-diH-*.-; etc. 
Stupor (stu'por), . [= F. Ktiipi-ia- = Sp. Pg. 
I'stiijinr It. xtitpore,* Ii. stupor, insensibility, 
numbness, dullness, < stupere, be struck sense- 
less, be amazed or confounded: see .,///<///. 
xiiipid.] 1. Suspension or great diminution 
of sensibility ; a state in which the faculties 
are deadenee or dazed; torpidity of feeling. 
The first flashing of the candles upon that canvas had 
seemed to dissipate the dreamy stupor which wa> stealing 
over my senses. Poe, Tales, I. 387. 
The injured person is ... in a condition between stu- 
por and insensibility, with other signs of general prostra- 
tion. J. M. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 414. 
2. Intellectual insensibility ; dullness of per- 
ception or understanding; mental or moral 
numbness. 
Our Church stands haltered, dumb, like a dumb ox : 
lowing only for provender (of tithes); content if it can 
have that ; or, with dumb stupor, expecting its further 
doom. Carlyle, French Rev., I. ii. 8. 
Anerglc stupor. Same as gtuporous insanity (which see, 
under stuporous). 
stuporous (stu'por-us), a. [< stupor + -ous.] 
Characterized by stupor ; having stupor as a 
conspicuous symptom. [Recent.] stuporous 
insanity, a psychoneurosis, usually of young adultn, 
characterized by extreme apathy and dementia, ensuing 
usually on conditions of exhaustion from shock or other- 
wise, and generally issuing in recovery after a few weeks 
or months. Also called acute dementia, primary dementia, 
primary curable dementia, and anergu: stupor. 
Stuporms insanity being a recoverable form, dementia 
would more properly include cases of traumatlsm re- 
sembling it. Alien, and Neural., IX. 458. 
stupose (stu'pos), a. [< L. stupa, stuppa, tow 
(see stupe 1 ), + -ose.] In bot. and zodl., bear- 
ing tufts or mats of long hairs; composed of 
matted filaments like tow. Compare stupeous. 
stuprate(stu'prat),!. t. ; yret.&ndpp.stuprated, 
ppr. stupratiny. [< L. stuprattis, pp. of stuprarr 
(> It. stuprare = Sp. Pg. cstuprar), defile, de- 
bauch, < stuprum, defilement, dishonor.] To 
debauch; ravish. 
stupration (stu-pra'shon), n. [< L. as if "stupru- 
tio(n-),<. stuprare, defile, debauch: seestiiprate.] 
Violation of chastity by force ; rape. 
stuprum (stu'prum), w. [NL., < L. stuprum, 
defilement, dishonor.] 1. Stupration. 2. In 
civil law, any union of the sexes forbidden by 
morality. 
Stupulose (stu'pu-los), . [Dim. of stupose.] 
In entom., covered with short, fine, decumbent 
hairs; finely stupose. 
sturdied (ster'did), a. [< sturdy* + -rd*.] Af- 
fected with the disease called sturdy. 
I caught every sturdied sheep that I could lay my hands 
upon. Hfffft T" e Shepherd's (iuide, p. 58. 
sturdily (ster'di-li), adi: In a sturdy manner: 
stoutly; lustily. 
His refusal was too long and sturdily maintained to he 
reconciled with affectation or insincerity. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., II. 5. 
sturdiness (ster'di-nes), w. [< ME. xturdiiienxe. 
stiirdynesse : < sturdy 1 + -ness.] The state or 
property of being sturdy, (a) Obstinacy; contu- 
macy. (6) Stoutness ; lustiness ; vigor. 
Sturdy 1 (stfer'di), a. [< ME. gtitrdy, sturdi, stor- 
dy, stordi, stowrdi, < OF. estordi, estoun/i, 
stunned, amazed, stupefied, rash, heedless, 
careless, pp. of estordir, estourdir, F. etourdir = 
OSp. estordecir, estordecer = It. stvrdire, stun, 
amaze, stupefy ; origin uncertain ; perhaps < 
LL. as if "extorpidire, benumb, render sense- 
less or torpid, < L. ex-, out. + torpidus, dull: see 
torpid.] 1. Obdurately set or determined ; dog- 
gedly obstinate ; stubborn ; sulky : used of per- 
sons. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
v was ful sturdy, & thou ful myelde ; 
Ihesu, lord, y knowe weel it. 
Ili/nin* to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 85. 
Come, gentlemen, leave pitying and moaning of her, 
And praising of her virtnes and her whimwhams : 
It makes her proud and sturdy. Fletcher. Pilgrim, i. 1. 
