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Definition of Soporific

1. Adjective. Sleep inducing.

2. Noun. A drug that induces sleep.

3. Adjective. Inducing mental lethargy. "A narcotic speech"

Definition of Soporific

1. a. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

2. n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.

Definition of Soporific

1. Noun. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) Something boring or dull. ¹

3. Adjective. Tending to induce sleep. ¹

4. Adjective. (figuratively) boring, dull ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soporific

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Soporific

1. 1. Causing or inducing profound sleep. 2. A drug or other agent which induces sleep. Origin: L. Soporificus (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soporific

sophrologists sophrology sophronize sophrosyne sophs sophta sophtas sophy sopite sopited

sopites sopiting sopition sopor soporiferous soporific (current term) soporifical soporifically soporifick soporifics

soporose soporous sopors sopped sopper soppers soppier soppiest soppily soppiness

Literary usage of Soporific

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"Morphia, as is woll known, possesses both soporific and ... action is destroyed, but its soporific action, remains. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTICAL ACTION ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"TO THE INCOMPARABLE soporific DOCTOR [The Rev. Dr. Patrick Murdoch, Thomson's old and intimate friend and countryman—afterwards his kindly biographer. ..."

3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"Morphia, ae is well known, possesses both soporific and ... action is destroyed, but its soporific action remains. The subject U one of the deepest interest ..."

4. Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations: With Special Researches on by Francis Edmund Anstie (1865)
"The anodyne and soporific influence of doses of alcohol insufficient to narcotize affords as another illustration of the true stimulant action of this ..."

5. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... of the Past— Stately Serenity of the Modern Court—* * Wise Judgment and Wine- Dinners "—The Supreme Court in Session—soporific Influences—A Glimpse ..."

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