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lethargize, v.|ˈlɛθədʒaɪz|
[f. lethargy n. + -ize. Gr. had ληθαργίζεσθαι pass., to be forgotten.]
trans. To affect with lethargy. Hence ˈlethargized, ˈlethargizing ppl. adjs.
1614T. Adams Devil's Banq. v. 254 The Lethargiz'd is not lesse sicke, because hee complaines not so loud as the aguish. 1633― Exp. 2 Peter iii. 10. 1307 Others are lethargiz'd with a drousie dulnesse. 1805Southey Madoc i. i, Some philtre..to lethargize The British blood that came from Owen's veins. 1817Lady Morgan France (1818) I. 53 A..sergeant was giving a sort of lethargized attention..to the details which the elder dame was communicating. 1830Coleridge Table-t. 23 May, All bitters are poisons, and operate by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. a1834― in Lit. Rem. (1836) III. 8 The surest preventive or antidote against the freezing poison, the lethargizing hemlock, of the doctrine of the Sacramentaries. |