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单词 sompnary
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sompnaryn.

Forms: late Middle English sompnarye, late Middle English sompnearie, late Middle English sompnewarie.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin *sompniaria.
Etymology: Apparently < an unattested post-classical Latin form *sompniaria, variant of *somniaria (short for *ars somniaria art of interpreting dreams) < classical Latin somnium dream (see somnial adj.) + -āria -ary suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin somniarius interpreter of dreams (9th cent.). With the variation assumed for the unattested Latin forms compare post-classical Latin sompnium (8th cent.), variant of classical Latin somnium . Compare songuary n.In form sompnewarie apparently influenced by songewarie, variant of songuary n.
Obsolete.
Prediction of the future by the interpretation of dreams.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun]
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conjecturec1384
sompnary?a1450
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oneirology1818
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?a1450 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Bodl. Th d.36) (1976) i. 157 [a1500 Hunterian Alle þat..dyuynyn of mannys lyf or deth be numbrys..or be songewarie] eþer sompnearie [1493 sompnarye; Hunterian continues þe book of dremys].
a1500 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Oriel) (1869) B. vii. l. 148 Sompnewarie [c1400 Laud I haue no sauoure in songewarie, for I se it ofte faille; Catoun and canonistres conseilleth vs to leue To sette sadnesse in songewarie for, sompnia ne cures].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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