soporate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Latin

Verb

sopōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of sopōrō