v. i. To sink to the state of a brute. [ 1913 Webster ]
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
And mixed with bestial slime,
THis essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. [ R. ] Brydges. [ 1913 Webster ]