imbrute

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMBRU'TE, verb transitive [in and brute.] To degrade to the state of a brute; to reduce to brutality. --And mix with bestial slime This essence to incarnate and imbrute IMBRU'TE, verb intransitive To sink to the state of a brute.
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