Meanings
- obsoleteuncountablesleep (the act of sleeping, or of lulling to sleep).
One of his Lordship’s maxims is, that a total abstinence from intemperance or business, is no more philosophy, than a total consopiation of the senses is repose ; one must feel enough of its contrary to have a relish of either.
1724 August 12, Alexander Pope, letter to Robert Digby
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