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sopite

/səˈpaɪt/

sopite verb: to put to sleep, or to quieten.

Verb

sopite (third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep, or to quieten.
    • ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... 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.1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
    • The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of sopite

third-person singular presentsopites
present participlesopiting
past participlesopited
pastsopited

Origin of sopite

From Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).

Words formed from sopite

Questions about sopite

What does sopite mean?
Sopite means to put to sleep, or to quieten.
What part of speech is sopite?
Sopite is a verb.
How do you pronounce sopite?
Sopite is pronounced /səˈpaɪt/.
What is the past tense of sopite?
The past tense of sopite is sopited.

Words near sopite in the dictionary

  1. Sophus
  2. sophy
  3. sopi
  4. sopient
  5. sopila
  6. sopite
  7. sopite syndrome
  8. sopited
  9. sopites
  10. sopiting
  11. sopition

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