Torpitude

Tor´pi`tude


n. 1. Torpidness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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We all know about Twain's observation of the "drive and push and rush" of baseball in the "raging" nineteenth century, and Longfellow's rage for "ball, ball, ball" that can rid Bowdoin students of their "torpitude," and Whitman's "hurrah game" that fills our lungs with oxygen.
Quoting baseball: the intellectual take on our national pastime
Reid made the City players sit through a video nasty of their humbling at the Walkers Stadium and hopes that the sight of them being embarrassed by their local rivals will jolt them from their apparent torpitude.
FOOTBALL: REID LAYS DOWN LAW; City players told to take on some responsibility