Meanings
adjectivedormient (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of dormant.
[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.
1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, page 236
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