soporiferous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of soporiferous
1580–90; < Latin sopōrifer ( sopōr-, combining form of sopor sopor + -i- -i- + -fer -fer ) + -ous
Example Sentences
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His suggestion that the soporiferous medicines are likest to do it means that he thinks the delusions of witches subjective and produced by drugs.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
"Item, on the said day, in the evening, a julep, hepatic, soporiferous, and somniferous, intended to promote the sleep of Mr. Argan, thirty-five sous."
From The Imaginary Invalid by Charles Heron Wall
At last the soporiferous fume of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
The doctor, having felt his pulse and examined his wounds, declared him much better, which he imputed to that sanative soporiferous draught, a medicine "whose virtues," he said, "were never to be sufficiently extolled."
From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding
And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-coloured beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.
From King Candaules by Lafcadio Hearn
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