sopite
English
Etymology
Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).
Verb
sopite (third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep; to quiet.
- 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since,
- ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
- Fuller
- The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.
- 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since,
Derived terms
- sopite syndrome
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sopite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- postie
Italian
Verb
sopite
- second-person plural present indicative of sopire
- second-person plural imperative of sopire
- plural of sopito
Anagrams
- ospite
Latin
Participle
sōpīte
- vocative masculine singular of sōpītus