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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Inducing stupor; stupefying or narcotic.
  2. n. A drug, such as a narcotic, that induces stupor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a stupefying power.
  2. n. A medicine which produces stupor or insensibility; a narcotic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. medicine inducing stupor or drowsiness (with a drug such as a narcotic or an anaesthetic)
  2. n. medicine a drug that has the above effect

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.

Etymologies

  1. Latin stupefaciēns, stupefacient-, present participle of stupefacere, to stupefy; see stupefy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Could it also be that our defiant devotion to our favorite stupefacient, combined with the effects of said stupefacient, invites us to dream up quasi-religious justifications for getting zonked four times a day as a sort of sacramental ritual?”

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