v. Obs. [f. L. sopōrāt-, ppl. stem of sopōrāre to put asleep, lull, stupefy, etc., f. sopor sleep.] trans. To put to sleep; to dull, stupefy.
1623. Cockeram, I. Soporate, to bring asleepe.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 199. [Frontals] indeed are very expetible which … gently soporate the senses, and roborate the brain.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 795. The Soul seeming not to be Thoroughly Awake here, but as it were Soporated, with the Dull Steams and Opiatick Vapours of this gross Body.
Hence Soporated ppl. a.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 199/1. And especially soporated Patients awake upon taking a Vomit.
