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torpor|ˈtɔːpə(r)|
[a. L. torpor, -ōrem, f. torpēre to be numb.]
Torpid condition or quality; torpidity. a. Absence or suspension of motive power, activity, or feeling; † inertia (obs.); suspended animation or development; in Path. morbid inertia or insensibility, stupor.
1626Bacon Sylva §763 Motion doth discusse the Torpour of Solide Bodies Which..have in them a Natural Appetite, not to move at all. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Torpor, a numness, heaviness,..and unaptness for any motion. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. v. 443 Strictly speaking.., these animals cannot be said to sleep during the winter; it may be called rather a torpor, a stagnation of all the faculties. a1854H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets ii. (1857) 63 Why does the earth break forth from its winter's torpor in all the luxuriance of Spring?
b. transf. Intellectual or spiritual lethargy; apathy, listlessness; dullness; indifference.
[a1225Ancr. R. 202 Þe Bore of heui Slouhðe haueð þeos hweolpes: Torpor is þe uorme þet is wlech heorte..þe oðer is Pusillinimitas.] 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 38 What meaneth our torpor? what our frozen coldnesse in zeal? 1789Belsham Ess. I. xvii. 333 A universal torpor of the mental faculties must take place. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. I. i. 62 That intellectual torpor which we are accustomed to associate with ecclesiastical domination.
c. Comb., as torpor-shedding adj.
1806J. Grahame Birds Scot., etc. 140 Till noon-tide pour the torpor-shedding ray. |