hebetates

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Desultory reading except as conscious pastime, hebetates the brain and slackens the bow string of Will.

How to Study and Teaching How to Study 1899
Seventhly, their health, vigour, and long lives may reasonably receive an addition from their great freedom and privileges; for where a slavish dependance hebetates and blunts the mind, and consequently enervates the body, liberty exhilarates the one, and by that means strengthens the other.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823