bruitify

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bruitify (third-person singular simple present bruitifies, present participle bruitifying, simple past and past participle bruitified)

Alternative form of brutify
- 1668, Thomas Vincent, God's terrible Voice in the City, page 110:
  This kind of intemperance hath so strangely bruitified many, that they have been even degenerated into Beasts, only that they have been more unuseful; for hereby they have unfitted themfelves for all kind of service, as if they were born only to eat: but withall, they have prepared themselves for those ruining and slaughtering Judgments which have come upon the City.
- 1689, The popish champion:
  Nay, indeed it is not Tyrconnel at all, but the shadow only of that Substance , for the Popish Religion he so eagerly embraces hath bruitified him to that degree, that he hath neither Humanity, Mercy, nor Pity left to. ffce Distressed Protestants that you are now generously going to relieve.
- 1905, The Tailor: Official Organ of the Journeymen Tailors' National Union:
  It seeks to civilize and elevate, not bruitify and lower the standards of the great mass of the people.
- 1999, Michael Warner, American Sermons, page 232:
  To go Against Reason, is worse than to be Without Reason. For a Man to Bruitify himself: — Oh! Do not this Abominable thing!