somn-
pref.(前缀)
pref.(前缀)
- Variant of somni-
somni-的变体
somn-
prefix
a variant form of somni-
somni- or (before a vowel) somn-
combining form
sleep
⇒
somniferous
Origin
from Latin somnus☞ somni-
1885 Science VI. 78 Committees were appointed on..hypnotism, clairvoyance, and *somnambulance.
1905 Daily News 21 Jan. 6 His old habit or infirmity of somnambulance came back to him.
1843 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. &Mem. (1883) I. 231Four such nights might have made a *somnambulant of a much stronger woman than me.
1866 Blackmore Cradock Nowell xlix,He was listless, passive, somnolent,—somnambulant.
1887 Sat. Rev. 15 Jan. 80To walk in her sleep and to poison herself while in a somnambulant condition.
1830 Lytton Paul Clifford xvi. (1874) 193The pair..mounted the stairs, arm-in-arm, in search of *somnambular accommodations.
1860 Mrs. Browning Napoleon III in Italy v,While the palpitating peaks break out Ecstatic from somnambular repose.
1862 Lytton Str. Story 14An ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance.
1827 Sutherland Tales Pilgr. 369,I had become a sleep-walker; but whither my *somnambulary adventures had conducted me, was a riddle I had yet to solve.
1833 Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 127This inarticulate age which slumbers and *somnambulates.
1840 ― Diamond Necklace xiv,His Eminence again somnambulates the Promenade de la Rose.
1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xiv. 178The latter, sometimes over⁓eating themselves, somnambulate.
1876 Contemp. Rev. June 126A *somnambulating philosophy.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 325Though in its greatest degree it has been called *somnambulation or sleep-walking, it is totally different from that sleep.
1803 Beddoes Hygëia ix. 130The lady, whose reverie or somnambulation is described.
1862 G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod iii. xvii,The next day she had a bad head-ache. This with her always followed somnambulation.
1822 Prichard Dis. NervousSyst. I. 404Hoffmann cites the case of a *somnambulator, which . [ etc.]
1837 J. F. Cooper Europe II. 288A woman, who was subject to the magnetic influence, or who was what is commonly called a *somnambule.
1850 J. Braid Observ. Trance 30The same discretion ought also to be extended to the modes of testing somnambules.
1877 Symonds Renaiss.It. iii. 147Walking..like a somnambule sustained by an internal dream.
1829 I. Taylor Enthusiasm i. (1850) 10The enthusiast passes through life in a sort of happy *somnambulency.
1865 Carlyle Fredk.Gt. xviii. iii. (1872) VII. 138For nations have their somnambulencies.
1841 C. Mackay Pop. Delusions III. 366The patient was thrown into the *somnambulic state.
1862 G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod ii. xxxi,A reproduction of some previous somnambulic experience.
1880 A. H. Huth Life &Writ. Buckle I. 34He..woke the landlady whose somnambulic figure..had just frightened him.
1887 Sat. Rev. 11 June 848When he wakes, he finds that he has *somnambulically made a pen-and-ink sketch.
1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 534/2Subject to that singular affection or disease called *Somnambulism or sleep-walking.
1820 Shelley Witch Atl. lxxv,The soldiers..Walked out of quarters in somnambulism.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 93In somnambulism..the secondary consciousness takes control of the whole individual.
1794 M. Wollstonecraft Hist. ViewFr. Rev. I. 275It was dangerous to awaken a *somnambulist on the brink of a precipice.
1837 Barham Ingol.Leg. Ser. i. Spectre of Tappington (1905) 23Never again was Lieutenant Seaforth known to act the part of a somnambulist.
1856 Froude Hist. Eng. I. 308A revolution had been effected in Europe by a somnambulist peasant girl.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 158/1Somnambulists have been observed to write letters or reports,..and play upon musical instruments.
1840 Dickens Old C. Shop (1867) 304A *somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep.
1845 E. Warburton Crescent & Cross I. 216A black little naked urchin sits on the splinter-bar, continually goading his somnambulistic team.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 167Very rarely the patient may be also somnambulistic.
1845 E. Warburton Crescent & Cross II. 289The slaves glided about silently and *somnambulistically, or stood with folded arms watching for a sign.
a1893 Symonds in H. F. Brown Life (1895) I. 71,I did not doubt that my spirit could somnambulistically travel from the place.
1832 Figaro in London 3 March 52/1 When he *somnambulizes upon the stage.
c1850 Whittier Tales &Sk. ,Mag. & Witch Folk ProseWks. 1889 I. 400A ‘wise woman’ dreamed, or somnambulized, that a large sum of money..lay buried in the centre of the great swamp.
1920 E. Sitwell Children's Tales 12The puppets move somnambulantly through the dark of our hearts.
1983 Financial Times 5 Apr. 15/6 The ENO had a chorus involved in its work, not somnambulantly detached therefrom.
1987 I. McEwan Child in Time i. 8She walked slowly, somnambulantly.