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▪ I. sopite, v. Now rare.|səʊˈpaɪt|
Also 6 sopyte.
[f. L. sōpīt-, ppl. stem of sōpīre to deprive of sense, render unconscious, put to sleep, etc.]
1. trans. To put or lull to sleep; to render drowsy, dull, or inactive. Also transf. (with reference to the mental or moral faculties).
1542Boorde Dyetary ix. (1870) 250 Dyuers tymes some be so sopytyd, that the malt worme playeth the deuyll so fast in the heade [etc.]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sopited, laid to sleep, being at rest. 1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic ii. xxii. 105 You may demonstrate that an animal sleeps because the common sense is sopited or drown'd by vapours. 1740Cheyne Regimen 11 These Natural Powers may be sopited,..as we see they are in sound Sleep. 1864A. Leighton Myst. Leg. Edinb. (1886) 203 They could not be heard by reason of their having been ‘clean gane’, or at least sopited in sweet slumber. 1871Blackie Four Phases Mor. i. 58 His knowing faculty was blinded and sopited, dosed and drugged by his passions.
2. To put an end to, to settle (a dispute, question, etc.) in some way. Also, to pass over or suppress (something discreditable).
1628in Birch Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 451 On Friday last there was a meeting of the bishops..about sopiting, as they term it, the controversies of this present time. 1659Fuller Appeal Injured Innoc. i. 49 Being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference, sopited in good measure. 1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 675 It grieves me to hear that the differences betwixt Subscribers and Non-subscribers are, after they seemed to be sopited, breaking out again. 1746Turnbull Justinian xii. xiii, Certainly there was treason in the case, the infamy of which was sopited by his successors. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xv, If such a union would sopite the heavier part of his unadjusted claims. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe (1859) VIII. 14 If any disputes did occur they were in general sopited by a bribe to the Mandarins.
Hence ˈsopited ppl. a., ˈsopiting vbl. n.
1646R. Baillie Anabaptism (1647) 139 Among many more exploded and sopited errors. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 23 A conference should shortly be had for the sopiting and quieting of those disputes. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, The sopiting of a very dangerous claim.
▪ II. sopite, pa. pple. rare.|səʊˈpaɪt|
[f. as prec. Cf. sopit pa. pple.]
Put to rest or sleep; settled.
c1460Reg. Oseney (1907) 205 All playntys and stryfys..bitwene the foresaide parties..for ever frendely ben i-cesyd or sospite [sic].
1784Irvine Presbyt. Records in Dobie Mem. W. Wilson of Crummock (1896) 57 [Mr. Gemmel craved his wife might be absolved from her scandal,] seeing it is of ane old date and almost sopite. 1877Blackie Wise Men 293 Loveliest flowers, whose seeds long summers there Lay sunless and sopite. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano iv. vi. 153 But when, cut off from sense, in sleep sopite, The soul..takes her own instruments. |