torporise

torporise (third-person singular simple present torporises, present participle torporising, simple past and past participle torporised)

1. Alternative form of torporize
   • 1842, The Oracle of Reason, Or, Philosophy Vindicated:

     It has, by its frightful phantoms, forced the mind to vegetate in primitive stupidity, entangled man's reason in a labyrinth, from which he cannot extricate himself, it has subjugated the many for the benefit of the few, it has manacled the limbs and torporised the mind—the invention of the god-idea has robbed man of everynoble thought, feeling, impulse, and made him the prey of the most savage passions — while the supposed deity is described as exulting, with fiendish delight, over the horrid desolation.

   • 1843, The Metropolitan - Volume 36, page 52:

     The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish "it is fate," torporises activity and exertion.

   • 1868, R. S. T., God's Purposes and Man's Accountability: a dialogue:

     What can we do but weep over a gloomy theology which freezes the lips of ministers, torporises the Church, and drives nations and individuals to infidelity.

• posterior, repositor