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torporific, a. (n.)|tɔːpəˈrɪfɪk|
[ad. L. type *torpōrific-us, f. torpōr-em torpor + -ficus making: see -fic.]
Causing torpor; producing numbness; paralysing; also fig. stupefying, deadening. † torporific eel, the gymnotus or electric eel (obs.).
1769E. Bancroft Guiana 190 There is one of the Eel tribe,..which I shall beg leave to call the Torporific Eel. 1825New Monthly Mag. XV. 77/2 The torporific sway of Austria. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 632 Galen..tells the Torpedo affects by a torporific action peculiar to itself.
b. absol. as n. Something causing torpor.
1840Manning Let. in Purcell Life (1895) I. ix. 169, I find the want of such opportunities of conversation a great torporific. |
