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Definition of Soporiferous
1. Adjective. Sleep inducing.
Similar to: Depressant
Derivative terms: Soporific
2. Adjective. Inducing mental lethargy. "A narcotic speech"
Definition of Soporiferous
1. a. Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.
Definition of Soporiferous
1. Adjective. (archaic) soporific, sleep-inducing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soporiferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Soporiferous
1. Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." - Soporiferously, Soporiferousness. Origin: L. Soparifer; sopor a heavy sleep + ferere to bring. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soporiferous
Literary usage of Soporiferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence from by Porphyry, Thomas Taylor (1823)
"... who endeavours to obtain sleep through the whole of life, and who, for this
purpose, procures from all places things of a soporiferous nature, ..."
2. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"soporiferous. Soportable, a. Tolerable, supportable. Soportal, sm. Portico, a
large porch at the entrance of a house. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"Yet antidotes to poison and soporiferous drugs should have been little wanted
here, for it is almost universally admitted that the island breeds no serpent, ..."
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