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▪ I. sweven, n. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈswɛv(ə)n|
Forms: 1 swefen (suoefn, soefn, swæfn), 1, 3 swefn, (3 suefen, sweoven), 4–5 swefene, sueven(e, swevene, (4 squeven, -yn, -in, 4–5 swevon, 5 swevn, swyven, swene, sween, sweine, sweyne), 5–6 swevin, (5 swevyn, 6 Sc. swewyn, sweving, -yng), 6–8 sweaven, (7 sweeven), 3– sweven.
[OE. swef(e)n str. neut., sleep, dream = OS. sweƀan str. m., ON. svefn str. m.:—OTeut. *swefno-:—Indo-eur. *swepno-, f. swep-.
The parallel formations *swepno-, swopno-, supno- are represented outside Teutonic by Skr. svápnas, Gr. ὕπνος, L. somnus, Arm. khun, OIr. suan, W. hun, OSl. sŭnŭ, Lith. sãpnas; and, with secondary suffix, Skr. svápn(i)yam, Gr. ἐν-ύπνιον, L. somnium, OSl. sŭnĭje. From Indo-eur. swep-: swop-: swup- are derived also Skr. svápiti to sleep, L. sopor sleep, OE. swefan (see sweve), OSl. sŭpati to sleep.]
1. A dream, vision.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xvi. 101 For ðære ᵹesihðe ðe he on ðæm swefne ᵹeseah. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. i. 20 In somnis, in suoefnum vel in slepe. a1000Cædmon's Dan. 496 (Gr.) Him wearð on slæpe swefen ætywed. c1205Lay. 25552 Alse þe king slepte, A sweuen him imette, Feorlic wes þat sweouen. a1225Ancr. R. 268 Hit bringeð to nout alle þes deofles wieles..as lease swefnes, & false scheauwinges. c1250Gen. & Ex. 224 God dede ðat he on sweuene cam, And in ðat sweuene he let him sen Mikel ðat after sulde ben. c1305St. Kenelm 147 in E.E.P. (1862) 51 Þis sueuene bicom soþ ynouȝ. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 101 Allas and konne ye been agast of sweuenys No thyng god woot, but vanitee in sweuene is. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1668 A merueylle swene he dude þo mete. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 199 Manasses..beleuyd swenys and sorsrie. a1450Le Morte Arth. 3226 In stronge sweyneys I haue bene stad. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xiii. 53 Alle that herd of the sweuen said it was a token of grete batayll. a1500Chester Pl., Balaam 382 Then shold our childre prophesie, ould men meet swevens [v.r. sweens] wytterly. 1513Douglas æneis ii. xii. 64 The figour fled as lycht wynd, or son beyme, Or mast liklie a waverand sweving [v.r. sweuin] or dreyme. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 65, I looked all my chamber round about, And called to remembraunce all my sweven. 1594Zepheria iii, I as out of sweauen, My selfe gan rowse, like one from sleepe awaked. a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. ii. (1651) 26 Dan Cupido Sure sent thylke sweven to mine head. a1650St. Aldringa 77 in Hales & Furniv. Percy Folio I. 169, I had thought sweuens had neuer been true. a1650Robin Hood & Guy of Gisborne iv, Sweauens are swift, master..As the wind that blowes ore a hill. a1832Motherwell Poems, Sabbath Summer Noon xx, Fast fade the cares of life's dull sweven. 1840Kingsley Weird Lady Poems (1892) 211 Mary Mother she stooped from heaven; She wakened Earl Harold out of his sweven.
†2. Sleep. Obs. rare.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 720 (Gr.) Hit wæs deaðes swefn..menniscra morð.
c1645Enquiry, &c. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 503 If they [sc. swallows] should have no occasion for breath, while they lie in their sweeven, or winter-sleep. [Cf. swevet, quot. 1623.]
▪ II. † sweven, v. Obs.
[OE. swefnian trans. to appear to in a dream, intr. to dream, f. swefn: see prec.]
intr. To dream.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 212 Ᵹif ðu swefnast ðe tweᵹe monan ᵹeseon. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxix. 8 As sweueneth the hungrende, and eteth, whan forsothe he were wakid, voide is his soule. 14..Langl. P. Pl. Prol. 10 (MS. Univ. Coll. e. 45), I slombride on a slepynge & sweuenyd so myrie, Þan gan y to mete a merueylous sweuene. 1532Chaucer's Wks., Troylus iii. 1190 If ye be wyse Sweueneth [MSS. swouneth, etc.] not nowe, leste more folke aryse.
Hence † ˈswevener (also 6 Sc. suengour, swevyngeour), a dreamer.
1382Wyclif Jer. xxvii. 9 Ȝoure profetus, and deuynoures, and sweueneres. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 171 Suengouris [v.r. swevyngeouris] that slummeris nocht weil. |