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third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited
(obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep, or to quieten. quotations
... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […]