a. Now rare. [f. as prec. + -OUS, or ad. F. soporeux, -euse. Cf. also L. sopōrus.]

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  1.  = SOPOROSE a. ? Obs.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., I. 23/1. It is an excellent tart Water, much to be desired in all Apoplectick, Epileptick, and Soporous cases.

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a. 1691.  Baxter, in Reliq. B. (1696), I. II. 199. I was then under … Soporous or Scotomatical Ilness of my Head.

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1707.  Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 193. In Apoplexies, Palsies, and soporous Affections, the Spirits are oppress’d.

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1730.  Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 352. Soporous and cataleptick Diseases. Ibid. (1762), LII. 454. I … found him in the same soporous, apoplectic state.

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  2.  Soporific; sleep-bringing.

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1866.  [Shanks], Elgin, 55. They may now resign themselves to the soporous sheets without a shudder.

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