Brū'ti-fy, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BRUTIFIED; p. pr. & vb. n. BRUTIFYING.] [Fr. brutifier.] To make a person a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. “A man not quite brutified and void of sense.” Barrow.

It has possessed only two secrets for governing, . . . to drain and to brutify its subjects. J. Bentham.