torpescent

Latin torpescens.

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

torpescent (comparative more torpescent, superlative most torpescent)

1. Becoming torpid or numb.
   • a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:

     Of words indeed profuse,
     Of gold tenacious, their torpescent ſoul
     Clenches their coin

• “torpescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• center spot, precontest

torpēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of torpēscō