Dictionary entry

Hebetate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Heb″e‐tate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Hebetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Hebetating.] [L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete.] To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey