a. rare. ? Obs. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Having the quality of a torpedo; benumbing, paralysing; also = TORPEDINAL.
1774. Pringle, Torpedo, 23. Nor in this circumstance only did the similitude between the electric and torpedinous fluids appear.
1845. De Quincey, Coleridge & Opium-eat., Wks. 1859, XII. 92. First came Dr. Andrew Bell … Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner.
1917. News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 8 Jan., 6/1. Peace talk is becoming somewhat torpedinous and jading, but let’s not surrender to hopelessness until the bird had grudgingly parted with its last tail feather.
