Definition of Torpors

1. torpor [n] - See also: torpor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torpors

torpent
torpescence
torpid
torpidities
torpidity
torpidly
torpidness
torpids
torpified
torpifies
torpify
torpifying
torpitude
torpor
torporific
torpors (current term)
torpour
torq
torqs
torquate
torquated
torque converter
torque off
torque spanner
torque steer
torque wrench
torque wrenches
torqued
torqued off

Literary usage of Torpors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. God's Psychology: A Sufi Explanation by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2007)
"That representative can control all the energies, the torpors, and the qualities of the ... He can control the torpors, the energies, and the miracles. ..."

2. Among the Goths and Vandals by John Blaikie (1870)
"We have no class to correspond with " torpors." If their condition is superior to that of serfs, it is chiefly from the voluntary nature of the service. ..."

3. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... Adamantius as yet could only reply, that he had no power to treat while Theodoric remained in Epirus. But let him abstain 1 Tovs iv rjj ®paial torpors ..."

4. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"He had his sluggish moods, his torpors — but they were the halting-stones and resting-place of his tragedy — politic sav- ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... violent resolve was the result of one of those " sporadic overmastering torpors which interrupt the circulatory system or indicate arterial convulsion" ..."

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