soporific

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SOPORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sopor, sleep, and facio, to make.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; narcotic; as the soporific virtues of opium. SOPORIF'IC, noun A medicine, drug, plant or other thing that has the quality of inducing sleep.
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