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Soporific

Sŏp'/o-rĭf'ic, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. soporifique, from Lat. sopor, a heavy sleep, and facere, to make.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

Sŏp'o-rif'ic, n.

noun

n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other thing that has the quality of inducing sleep.