sleepify

English

Verb

sleepify (third-person singular simple present sleepifies, present participle sleepifying, simple past and past participle sleepified)

1. (transitive) To make sleepy.
   • 1662, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oriatrike, page 338:

     Sleepifying vapours are derived upwards from the meats […]

   • 1998, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney, I'll Stand by You: Selected Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 30:

     Now I am consuming cake and sherry , and trying to sleepify myself.