rare. [f. as prec. Cf. SOPIT pa. pple.] Put to rest or sleep; settled.
c. 1460. Reg. Oseney (1907), 205. All playntys and stryfys … bitwene the foresaide parties … for ever frendely ben i-cesyd or sospite [sic].
1784. Irvine Presbyt. Records, in Dobie, Mem. W. Wilson of Crummock (1896), 57. [Mr. Gemmel craved his wife might be absolved from her scandal,] seeing it is of ane old date and almost sopite.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 293. Loveliest flowers, whose seeds long summers there Lay sunless and sopite.
1883. R. W. Dixon, Mano, IV. vi. 153. But when, cut off from sense, in sleep sopite, The soul … takes her own instruments.
