torporise

present singular third person torporises · participle present torporising · participle past torporised · past torporised

1. alternativeAlternative form of torporize.

   The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish "it is fate," torporises activity and exertion.

   1843, The Metropolitan - Volume 36, page 52

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   It has, by its frightful phantoms, forced the mind to vegetate in primitive stupidity, entangled man's reason in a labyrinth, from which he cannot extricate himself, it has subjugated the many for the benefit of the few, it has manacled the limbs and torporised the mind—the invention of the god-idea has robbed man of everynoble thought, feeling, impulse, and made him the prey of the most savage passions — while the supposed deity is described as exulting, with fiendish delight, over the horrid desolation.

   1842, The Oracle of Reason, Or, Philosophy Vindicated

   What can we do but weep over a gloomy theology which freezes the lips of ministers, torporises the Church, and drives nations and individuals to infidelity.

   1868, R. S. T., God's Purposes and Man's Accountability: a dialogue