torpent

From Latin torpens, present participle of torpere (“to be numb”).

torpent (comparative more torpent, superlative most torpent)

1. (obsolete) Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
   • 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     frail and torpent Memory through so multifarious and numerous an Employment

torpent (plural torpents)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A numbing agent.

• “torpent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• portent

torpent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of torpeō