torpedinous
English
Etymology
See torpedo (“a kind of fish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)ˈpɛdɪnəs/
Adjective
torpedinous (comparative more torpedinous, superlative most torpedinous)
- Exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
- 1845, Thomas De Quincey, Coleridge and Opium-eating (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
- Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner.
- 1845, Thomas De Quincey, Coleridge and Opium-eating (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 torpedinous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)