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adv.
In a rude or violent manner.
a.
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
n.
Insensibility.
n.
A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.
a.
Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
n.
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls.
v. t.
To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
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Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.
n.
Brutality.
v. t.
To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
v. t.
To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
n.
The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
v. t.
To report; to bruit.
n.
One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
v. i.
To sink to the state of a brute.
n.
A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
v. t.
To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.
a.
Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
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