consopite

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnsōpītus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒnsəpaɪt/

Verb

consopite (third-person singular simple present consopites, present participle consopiting, simple past and past participle consopited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To lull to sleep; to quieten; to compose.
    • 1653, Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalistica:
      The operations of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slaked and consopited.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “consopite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cōnsōpīte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnsōpiō
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