soporate

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verb

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

OriginLatin soporatus →
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Meanings

verbsoporate (third-person singular simple present soporates, present participle soporating, simple past and past participle soporated)

present singular third person soporates · participle present soporating · participle past soporated · past soporated

  1. obsoleteTo lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

    the soul seeming not to be thoroughly awake here , but , as it were , soporated with the dull steams and opiatic vapours of this gross body

    1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinsoporatus
  2. Englishsoporate

From Latin soporatus, past participle of soporare (“to put to sleep”), from sopor (“a heavy sleep”).

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