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Soporific
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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
sop·o·rif·ic       [sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.causing or tending to cause sleep.
2.pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
–noun
3.something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.

[Origin: 1655–65; < L sopor sopor + -i- + -fic; cf. F soporifique]

sop·o·rif·i·cal·ly, adverb
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sop·o·rif·ic       (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
  2. Drowsy.

n.   A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
soporific 
1690, from Fr. soporifique (1687), formed in Fr. from L. sopor (gen. soporis) "deep sleep," from a causative form of the PIE base *swep- "to sleep" (see somnolence).

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soporific

adjective
1. sleep inducing 
2. inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic

noun
1. a drug that induces sleep 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Soporific

Som"no*lent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. Hypnotic, Somnambulism, Soporific.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv.

He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. --De Quincey.

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Soporific

Sop`o*rif"ic\ (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep (akin to somnus sleep) + facere to make. See Somnolent, Fact.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

Syn: Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.

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