different between mesmeric vs soporific

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?r?k

Adjective

mesmeric (comparative more mesmeric, superlative most mesmeric)

1. of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization
   • 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, Karma, in Karma and Other Stories and Essays, London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1921, Chapter VI, p. 36, [1]

     Even were he to write a lie, he could not meet her and maintain it, with her eyes upon his face: they had uttermost power over him—power as of life and death,—those fine grey sweet mesmeric eyes !

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 125, [2]

     Then suddenly he remembered something Differ had often talked about, what he called the Suggestive Power of the Written Word, the making, by means of arrangements of word and phrase, of mesmeric passes as it were before the reader's mind in order to convince—that was Differ's word, Convince!—Convince Against All Reason.

   • 1990, A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance, New York: Random House, Chapter 6, p. 113,

     She was a firm believer in mesmeric healing, from which she claimed to have benefited greatly, and she was also very much involved in the spiritualist experiments of those days […]

Derived terms

• mesmerically

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• soporifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep?r, from *swep-. Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?p.????f.?k/, /?so?.p????f.?k/

Noun

soporific (plural soporifics)

1. (pharmacology) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

2. (figuratively) Something boring or dull.

Translations

Adjective

soporific (comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)

1. (pharmacology) Tending to induce sleep.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:soporific

   • 1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies:

     It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
2. (figuratively) Boring, dull.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French soporifique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.po?ri.fik/

Adjective

soporific m or n (feminine singular soporific?, masculine plural soporifici, feminine and neuter plural soporifice)

1. soporific

   Synonyms: somnifer, soporifer

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