(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:51:40

Tor"por (?), n. [L., from torpere, to be torpid.]

1.

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

2.

Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

 

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