Definition of brute

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Brute (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

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Irrational :: Irrational (a.) Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
Imbrutement :: Imbrutement (n.) The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted..
Brutify :: Brutify (v. t.) To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize..
Beneath :: Beneath (prep.) Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming..
Houyhnhnm :: Houyhnhnm (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..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
Embrute :: Embrute (v. t.) To brutify; to imbrute.
Brute :: Brute (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
Dumb :: Dumb (a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes..
Litter :: Litter (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..
Animal :: Animal (n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence..
Brutism :: Brutism (n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity..
Imbrute :: Imbrute (v. i.) To sink to the state of a brute.
Imbruted :: Imbruted (imp. & p. p.) of Imbrut.
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle..
Brutish :: Brutish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent..
Vives :: Vives (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..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation..
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