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somnolent, a. and n.|ˈsɒmnələnt|
Also 5–6 sompnolent.
[a. OF. sompnolent (mod.F. somnolent), or ad. L. somnolentus (med.L. sompno-), f. somnus sleep.]
1. Tending to cause sleepiness or drowsiness; inclining to sleep.
c1475Partenay 5376 Where it behouith to wacche nightes thre Without any sompnolent slepe to be. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 292 Takes age in ease and sleepe content? Then Baiæ what more somnolent? 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 531 An effect which we seek in vain in the somnolent pages of Lediard. 1855Dickens Dorrit xix, He was again painfully aware of a somnolent tendency in Frederick. 1882H. De Windt Equator 75 The noise made by the stream..had a very pleasant and somnolent effect.
b. Marked by sleepiness or slowness.
1812Q. Rev. VIII. 64 The translator restricts his somnolent interrogation to Codrus. 1877Wallace Russia v. 76 And I must do Anton the justice to say that he served me well in his own somnolent fashion.
2. Of persons: Inclined to sleep; heavy with sleep; drowsy. Also transf.
1547Boorde Brev. Health xiii. (1557) B iij b, If the sycke person do vomit & be sompnouent [sic] or sleping. 1623Cockeram i, Somnolent, sleepie. 1625Jackson Creed v. xvi. Wks. IV. 118 Deriding the somnolent and sluggish gods of the Epicures. 1721in Bailey. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose v, I am no whit somnolent; I always hear best with my eyes shut. 1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Grey Dolphin (1905) 45 Fasting and watching had made him more than usually somnolent. 1891Hardy Tess (1900) 15/2 When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch.
b. n. A somnolent or sleepy person; one affected with somnolence.
1841W. C. Dendy Philos. Mystery 373 Like many other somnolents, she was morose and irritable, especially previous to the sleeping-fit.
Hence ˈsomnolently adv., in a somnolent manner; sleepily.
1615Jackson Creed iv. ii. ix. Wks. III. 378, I know none but may have hope to escape so they will not..somnolently put off the evil day. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXII. 384 Alciphron could not possibly have been more somnolently inclined. 1875M. Collins Sweet & Twenty ii. vi, An inquisitive investigative youth was Charles, who never threw away his time somnolently. |