obtunding

Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.

Ulysses 2003

Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

For the Stone being of a hollow spongie nature, has in the first and last of these appearances, all those pores fill'd with the obtunding and reflecting air; whereas in the second, all those pores are fill'd with a _medium_ that has much the same refraction with the particles of the Stone, and therefore those two being

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

_retained consciousness_; and, such being the case, no effect could be produced for obtunding pain.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

It is indeed high time that the medical profession raised, with one accord, its voice in solemn protest against the use of all nerve-obtunding and felicity-producing drugs, which are all, without exception, toxic agents, working mischief and only mischief in the human body. "

Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890