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torpitude Now rare.|ˈtɔːpɪtjuːd|
[Irregularly for *torpetude, f. L. torpē-re + -tude: the L. form, if existent, would be *torpetūdo: cf. consuētūdo, hebetūdo. (Perh. by false analogy with turpitude, f. L. turpi-s.)]
= torpidity.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. vii. 158 In a Torpitude, or sort of Sleep, or middle state between Life and Death. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 396 The Russians seem not yet thawed from the winter's torpitude. 1817J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 24 His Elysian torpitude of many weeks duration. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 105 In some cases there is great torpitude or sluggishness in the growth..of the ovaries. |