torpid

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOR'PID, adjective [Latin torpidus, torpeo.] 1. Having lost motion or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; as a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid 2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. The mind as well as the body becomes torpid by indolence. Impenitent sinners remain in a state of torpid security.
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