The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soporiferous \Sop`o*rif"er*ous\, a. [L. soparifer; sopor a heavy
sleep + ferere to bring.]
Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. ``Soporiferous
medicine.''
--Swift.
[1913 Webster] -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. --
Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) soporific, sleep-inducing
WordNet
adj. sleep inducing [syn: soporific, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic]
inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic, soporific]
Usage examples of "soporiferous".
Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe, whom when he beheld, he imbraced him in his armes, and presented him before the people, with great joy and consolation, and as he was wrapped and bound in his grave, so he brought him before the Judges, whereupon the wickednesse of the Servant, and, the treason of the stepdame was plainely discovered, and the verity of the matter revealed, whereby the woman was perpetually exiled, the Servant hanged on a Gallowes, and the Physitian had the Crownes, which was prepared to buy the poyson.
Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe, whom when he beheld, he imbraced him in his armes, and presented him before the people, with great joy and consolation, and as he was wrapped and bound in his grave, so he brought him before the Judges, whereupon the wickednesse of the Servant, and, the treason of the stepdame was plainely discovered, and the verity of the matter revealed, whereby the woman was perpetually exiled, the Servant hanged on a Gallowes, and the Physitian had the Crownes, which was prepared to buy the poyson.