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sleepify (third-person singular simple present sleepifies, present participle sleepifying, simple past and past participle sleepified)

  1. (transitive) To make sleepy.
    • 1662, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oriatrike, page 338:
      Sleepifying vapours are derived upwards from the meats []
    • 1998, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney, I'll Stand by You: Selected Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 30:
      Now I am consuming cake and sherry , and trying to sleepify myself.