torpidity (torpid it i)

[ Our Aryan brother creeps about his daily avocations with the desiccated appearance of a frozen frog, or sits in dormouse torpidity with his knees about his ears. P. Robinson , Under the Sun, p. 94. 2. In zoöl., a dormant state in which no food is taken; the condition of an animal in hibernation or estivation, when it pa es its time in the winter or summer sleep; dormancy.-3. Dullne ; sluggishne ; stupidity. Genius, likely to be lost in obscurity, or chilled to tor pidity in the cold atmosphere of extreme indigence. V. Knox , Grammar Schools. torpidly (tor'pid-li), adv. In a torpid manner; in consequence of numbne , insensibility, or apathy; sluggishly; slowly; stupidly. torpidne (tôr'pid-nes), n. por. Torpidity; tor The exercise of this faculty... keeps it from rust and torpidne . Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 3. torpify (tôr'pi-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. torpified, ppr. torpifying. [ They [sermons) are not harmle if they torpify the understanding. Southey , Doctor, xxvii. torpitude (tor'pi-tūd), n. [Irreg., torpi ( d ) + -tude.] Torpor; torpidity; dormancy, as of animals. See torpidity , 2. Able to exist in a kind of torpitude or sleeping state without any food. Derham, Physico-Theol., viii. 5.