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English
Etymology
From Latin hebetāns, present participle of hebetō (“to dull, deaden”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hebetant (comparative more hebetant, superlative most hebetant)
- (obsolete) Causing lethargy.
a. 1834, Charles Lamb, Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton :This morning, May 2, 1662, having first broken my fast upon eggs and cooling salades, mellows, watercresses, those herbes, according to Villanovus his prescription, who disallows the use of meat in a morning as gross, fat, hebetant, feral, altogether fitter for wild beasts than man […]
Latin
Verb
hebetant
- third-person plural present active indicative of hebetō