consopiation

== English == === Noun === consopiation (uncountable) (obsolete) sleep (the act of sleeping, or of lulling to sleep). 1724 August 12, Alexander Pope, letter to Robert Digby: One of his Lordship’s maxims is, that a total abstinence from intemperance or business, is no more philosophy, than a total consopiation of the senses is repose ; one must feel enough of its contrary to have a relish of either. ==== Related terms ==== soporific === References === “consopiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.