Sentence:  Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his congnisance <WSD>papaverous</WSD> volumes, with which only a superhuman endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Inducing sleep; soporific.