adreamadv.adj.
/əˈdriːm/, U.S. /əˈdrim/ Chiefly poetic.
In a dream. Also occasionally as adj. (in predicative use): dreaming, asleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [adverb]
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1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 276/2 That sets the imagination dimly a-dream of mermaids.
1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 141 I lie a-dream.
1909 W. J. Locke Septimus ii. 23 He stared into vacancy, his pale blue eyes adream.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 105 And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 68 Adam and Eve lay adream.
1997 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Features section: Television) I awoke, yet slumbered still, as one adream.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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