soporn.

1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 22 Having drunk there their Fill, Benummed with a Mortal Sopor, and consequently Irrecoverably losing and forgetting All they did.

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel iii. 77 My Spirits retiring as in those that are in a deep Sopor, as if they were half dead.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 107 When the Pulse becomes more frequent, it turns to a..Sincope; when more rare, to a Sopor or Convulsion.

1720 Hist. Life & Adventures D. Campbell 274 Sennertus, in his Institutio Medica, writes of the Daemoniacal Sopor of Witches.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 437 Violent gripings, lassitude, stupor and sopor, which continued a whole day.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. v. 71 The patient was in such a profound sopor, that apparently nothing but warmth remained to indicate that life had not already become extinct.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 282 The sopor deepened until the death of the patient.

1658 E. Reynolds Vanitie of Creature in Wks. (1677) 45 I found that that was but a sopor, a benumb'dness, which was in my apprehension a death of sin.

1671 R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. (ed. 2) App. 525 That spiritual sopor and stupidity which hath seized on others.

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel App. iii. 311 Into how deep a sopor therefore or lethargy is their wit and judgment cast?