soporare

soporare [CL] 1 to put to sleep, cause to sleep, overcome or fill with sleep; b (transf.). c to stupefy, numb. d to put to sleep in death. e (in fig. context). dum soporatus [Jacob], scalam ibi ad caelum usque conspiceret Theod. Laterc. 14; nonne oportuit Christum ~ari verrentibus undique fluctibus navem in qua dormiebat? Bede Mark 175B; magistros ‥ gravissimo somno ~abo Osb. V. Dunst. 15; Yvo gloriosus ~ato astitit Gosc. V. Iv. 85A; sacrista ‥ psalmodie pertesus longitudinem, in ipso strato lectuli sui, quo consederat, sompno surripiente ~atus est R. Cold. Cuthb. 37; in nocte ‥ omnibus nimio vino ~atis Hon. Spec. Eccl. 1070A; abbate ‥ post laborem itineris et refectionem sui corporis ~ato, frater Richardus zonam ejus ‥ clanculo tulit J. Furness Walth. 75.  b oroma gentilis qua viderat ipse supernum, / nocte soporata Alcuin SS Ebor 94.  c si quorum corpora propter curam secanda sunt, hujus [sc. mandragorae] cortex vino mixta ad bibendum datur ut ~ati dolorem non sentiant [cf. Isid. Etym. XVII 9. 30] Bede Cant. 1204A; vires ‥ navigantum [sic] tempestatum turbines laccessiendo [sic] ~averant R. Cold. Cuthb. 30; curiositatis audacia rationales ipsius animi vires ~averat Ib. 91.  d ut damnati pereant aeterna morte ~andi Bede Apoc. 175B; nec aliquanto diutius subsistam, quia in Domino ~ari delectat W. Malm. GR III 268; Christus ‥ in ligno crucis morte ~atur Hon. Spec. Eccl. 910C.  e defunctus hic ‥ significat hominem letali criminum funere ~atum Bede Luke 417C; pax arma soporat J. Exon. BT VI 69; ubi modo soporatur / vel in quibus occultatur / veritas climatibus? Walt. Wimb. Van. 120. 2 (intr.) to sleep. ista soporando panxit, dominumque precando Poem Hild. 451; exultet Betergisvurgia ‥ in sorte sua sibi pervenisse corpus ~anti simile Sancti Ethmundi regis et martyris J. Furness Walth. 135; sileant hec omnia apud Joseph, ut jam pausante et ~ante eo, primum silentium teneant omnia sua Ad. Scot Serm. 324C.