The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and
that which he conceives like his own.
Hazlitt.
3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the
performance of some act may be avoided.
Stul*til"o*quence (?), n. [L. stultiloquentia; stultus foolish +
loquentia a talking, fr. loquens, p. pr. of loqui to talk.] Silly talk;
babbling.
Stul*til"o*quent (?), a. [Cf. L. stultiloquus. See Stultiloquence.]
Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. --
Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.
Stul*til"o*quy (?), n. [L. stultiloquium.] Foolish talk; silly
discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.
Stul"ty (?), a. [L. stultus foolish.] Foolish; silly. [Obs.] Testament
of Love.
Stum (?), n. [D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet
stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom.] 1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often
used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
B. Jonson.
And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
Dryden.
2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of
must. Hudibras.
Stum, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming.] To
renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
We stum our wines to renew their spirits.
Floyer.
Stum"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stumbling (?).] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E.
stammer. See Stammer.] 1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way
with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they
stumble.
Prov. iv. 19.