ETYMOLOGY
– irregular from French assopir, modern assoupir, or Italian assopire,
from Latin as- = ad- to + sopīre (to lull asleep)
EXAMPLE
“…that it wes not intended as ane justificatione of the Band, for they did imagine that all of that kynd was already assopiat, bot that it was his Lordships owne privat thoughts, quhilk wes not to come without the bounds of his owne charter-kist…”
From: Memorials of Montrose and His Times
Edited by Mark Napier, 1848
XXIV. Montrose’s Declaration Before The Committee of Estates, August 1641
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