Also 7 sopour. [a. L. sopor deep sleep, lethargy, related to somnus sleep.]
1. A deep, lethargic, or unnatural sleep or state of sleep. In later use Path.
1675. R. Burthogge, Causa Dei, 22. Having drunk there their Fill, Benummed with a Mortal Sopor, and consequently Irrecoverably losing and forgetting All they did.
1681. H. More, Exp. Dan., iii. 77. My Spirits retiring as in those that are in a deep Sopor, as if they were half dead.
1707. Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 197. When the Pulse becomes more frequent, it turns to a … Sincope; when more rare, to a Sopor or Convulsion.
1720. De Foe, Duncan Campbell, 274. Sennertus, in his Institutio Medica, writes of the Dæmoniacal Sopor of Witches.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 437. Violent gripings, lassitude, stupor and sopor, which continued a whole day.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., v. 71. The patient was in such a profound sopor, that apparently nothing but warmth remained to indicate that life had not already become extinct.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 282. The sopor deepened until the death of the patient.
† 2. fig. A state of mental or moral lethargy or deadness. Obs.
1658. Bp. Reynolds, Van. Creat., Wks. (1677), 45. I found that that was but a sopor, a benumb’dness, which was in my apprehension a death of sin.
1681. H. More, Exp. Dan., App. III. 311. Into how deep a sopor therefore or lethargy is their wit and judgment cast?
1693. R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script. (1801), App. I. 439. That spiritual sopor and stupidity which hath seized on others.
