"torporise" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1842, The Oracle of Reason, Or, Philosophy Vindicated:",
          "text": "It has, by its frightful phantoms, forced the mind to vegetate in primitive stupidity, entangled man's reason in a labyrinth, from which he cannot extricate himself, it has subjugated the many for the benefit of the few, it has manacled the limbs and torporised the mind—the invention of the god-idea has robbed man of everynoble thought, feeling, impulse, and made him the prey of the most savage passions — while the supposed deity is described as exulting, with fiendish delight, over the horrid desolation.",
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          "text": "The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish \"it is fate,\" torporises activity and exertion.",
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          "ref": "1868, R. S. T., God's Purposes and Man's Accountability: a dialogue:",
          "text": "What can we do but weep over a gloomy theology which freezes the lips of ministers, torporises the Church, and drives nations and individuals to infidelity.",
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