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soporific

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sop⋅o⋅rif⋅ic

  [sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-]
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–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

Related forms:
sop⋅o⋅rif⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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sop·o·rif·ic   (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)   
adj.  

  1. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.

  2. Drowsy.

n.  A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.
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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1so·po·rif·ic
Pronunciation: -'rif-ik
Function: adjective
: causing or tending to cause sleep

Main Entry: 2soporific
Function: noun
: a soporific agent (as a drug)
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Medical Dictionary

soporific sop·o·rif·ic (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)
adj.

  1. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.

  2. Sleepy; drowsy.

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