soporate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin soporatus, p.p. or soporare (to put to sleep), from sopor (a heavy sleep).

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
    • 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:
      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

References

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soporate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

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Verb

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sopōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of sopōrō