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adj. - Inducing mental lethargy; Sleep inducing.

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  • "Whence I conclude," said Fritz, addressing himself, "that my orations must be somewhat soporiferous."
  • Petronius, in the time of Nero, A.D. 80, "delivered an odd receipt for dressing dormouse sausages, and serving them up with Poppies and honey, which must have been a very...
  • Into this cavern the sun never enters, and a perpetual stillness reigns, no noise being heard but the soft murmur caused by a stream of the river Lethe, which creeps over the...
  • Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe,...
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