Ellen G. White Writings

301 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISHNESS.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.

302 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISHNESS.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Stupidity from intoxication.

303 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STARE.3 (Noah Webster)

… , surprise, stupidity, horror, fright and sometimes by eagerness to hear or learn something, sometimes by impudence. We say, he stared with astonishment.

304 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCK.7 (Noah Webster)

4. A person very stupid, dull and senseless.

305 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCKISH.1 (Noah Webster)

STOCKISH, a. Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

306 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOLID.1 (Noah Webster)

STOLID, a. [L., from the root of still, stall, to set.] Dull; foolish; stupid. [Not used.]

307 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOLIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)

STOLIDITY, n. [supra.] Dullness of intellect; stupidity. [Little used.]

308 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOP.1 (Noah Webster)

… , whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop, or a stop.] The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

309 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPE.3 (Noah Webster)

STUPE, n. A stupid person. [Not in use.]

310 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFACTION.2 (Noah Webster)

1. The act of rendering stupid.

311 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFACTION.3 (Noah Webster)

2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity.

312 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFIER.1 (Noah Webster)

STUPEFIER, n. [from stupefy.] That which causes dullness or stupidity.

313 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFY.2 (Noah Webster)

1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive of sensibility. It is a great sin to attempt to stupefy the conscience.