sopition

English

Noun

sopition (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, nonce word) The act of putting to sleep.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     dementation and sopition of reason

Related terms

• soporific

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sopition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• position