"torporise" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "torporising",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "torporised",
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    },
    {
      "form": "torporised",
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  "pos": "verb",
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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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        {
          "ref": "1843, The Metropolitan - Volume 36, page 52",
          "text": "The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish \"it is fate,\" torporises activity and exertion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        "Alternative form of torporize"
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  "word": "torporise"
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    {
      "form": "torporises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "torporising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "torporised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "torporised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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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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        },
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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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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