What does "soporific" mean?
Soporific: Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Additional senses
- 2.A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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