stupificationn.

1650 J. Hall Paradoxes 35 Is not that man miserable, who is frustrated of his best and dearest aimes, and is forc'd cowardly to undergoe the contrary wants; what other is this, but as if he could not dance a galliard, should swallow downe opium, and thinke to allay his losse, but selfe stupification.

1698 J. Spire Natures, Uses, & Doses Medicines 1 In Apoplexies, Lethargy, and Stupification of the Spirits, stoppages in the Breast, Surfeits, Rheumatism, Stone and Strangury.

?1727 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. V. vi. 170 As the force of it [sc. Opium] abates, a dull Stupification succeeds, which they term an Extasie.

1797 J. Johnson Advantages & Disadvantages of Marriage State 4 I saw a very formidable army approaching the city, with full power to destroy it.., but all the inhabitants of the city continued in a stupification.

1849 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 47 Closing upon him, in the moment of stupefication, he snatched him up from the ground, tucked him up under his left arm, and..administered to him several hearty boxes on the ear.

1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 400 Complete stupification of the organism must be produced, so that when it is removed to a killing fluid, no contraction will take place.

1922 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 Mar. 661/1 The present writer remembers..the stupification with which he got the result of the first match.

1982 Symbolic Interaction 5 297 If he deceives himself about his own death.., then he will live each moment in the stupefication of that deception.

2002 D. Klein Blue Suede Clues xix. 167 When Norma saw Elvis Presley exit the car.., that look [of hope] changed to stupification, then to near ecstasy.