Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put to sleep; set at rest; quiet; silence; specifically, in Scots law, to quash.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete, transitive To put to sleep; to quiet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.
Etymologies
- Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire ("to put to sleep"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He urged that the quarrel was common to them, and that Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, _vite_ giving satisfaction to both, which he had done in his case by an honourable meeting, and in that of Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.”
“He urged that the quarrel was common to them, and that Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to both, which he had done in his case by an honourable meeting, and in that of Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.”
“He began to bethink himself, “That if Ravenswood was to have a distinguished place of power and trust, and if such a union would sopite the heavier part of his unadjusted claims, there might be worse matches for his daughter Lucy: the Master might be reponed against the attainder.”
“That if Ravenswood was to have a distinguished place of power and trust, and if such a union would sopite the heavier part of his unadjusted claims, there might be worse matches for his daughter Lucy: the Master might be reponed against the attainder.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sopite’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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catching words
wicker(whichwill)work
collate, percolate, key, quay, hedge, haggard, haw, hawthorn, hawfinch, colander, couloir, coulee and 54 more...
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Miscellany, pt. s
stythe, sick-abed, skin diving, shellfish, sanguinivorous, sessile, spondylolysis, schlimazel, siliquiferous, singultus, scintillation, sivatherium and 37 more...
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Sleepy/Dreamy
noctuary, oneirocriticism, revery, somnambulate, somnial, somniate, somnifacient, somniloquence, somnipathy, somnolescent, somnolence, somnorific and 7 more...
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Words for story titles
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sanguine, seizin, recessional, introsume, nugae, saccharine, sopite, sempiternal, phantasmagoria
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she v., To put or lull to sleep; to render drowsy, dull, or inactive. Aug 8, 2008