imbrued

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This imbruted creature, says the objector, does not possess the metaphysical conception of God as a Spirit, and of all his various attributes and qualities, like the dweller in Christendom.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

And why, most of all, why not for the wretched dwellers in the slums of Sydney, the weary women, the puny children, the imbruted men?

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice

No trace of manhood or womanhood was visible—and no animal is so repulsive as a man or woman imbruted.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson

By means of a few drops of powerful cordial, the doctor for a moment reanimated the imbruted carcass that lay before him.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules