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combining form of L. somnus, used in words based on L. ambulāre to walk; the oldest of these in English use are somnambulation, somnambulism, and somnambulist. (For variant, and in some cases earlier, terms see noct-.) somˈnambulance, sleep-walking, somnambulism. somˈnambulant a., walking in sleep, somnambulic; n., a somnambulist. somˈnambular a., of or pertaining to sleep-walking; also erron., connected with, of the nature of, sleep. somˈnambulary a., = prec. somˈnambulate v. intr., to walk during sleep; trans., to walk along (a place) while asleep; hence somˈnambulating ppl. a. somˌnambuˈlation [mod.L. somnambulatio], the action or fact of walking in sleep. somˈnambulator, = next. somˈnambule [a. F. somnambule (1690), Sp. and Pg. somn-, Sp. sonámbulo, mod.L. somnambulus, -ambulo], a somnambulist. somˈnambulency, sleep-walking, or a fit of this; also fig. somˈnambulic a., of the nature of, pertaining to, etc., somnambulism; walking during sleep; hence somˈnambulically adv. somˈnambulism [F. somnambulisme, Sp. -ismo, mod.L. somnambulismus], the fact or habit of walking about and performing other actions while asleep; sleep-walking. somˈnambulist, one who walks, etc., while asleep; also attrib. somˌnambuˈlistic a., somnambulic; hence somˌnambuˈlistically adv. somˈnambulize v. intr., to walk in sleep; trans., to imagine during sleep-walking; also, to put into a sleep-walking state. somˈnambulous a., somnambulic (Dunglison, 1873).
1885Science VI. 78 Committees were appointed on..hypnotism, clairvoyance, and *somnambulance. 1905Daily News 21 Jan. 6 His old habit or infirmity of somnambulance came back to him.
1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. & Mem. (1883) I. 231 Four such nights might have made a *somnambulant of a much stronger woman than me. 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xlix, He was listless, passive, somnolent,—somnambulant. 1887Sat. Rev. 15 Jan. 80 To walk in her sleep and to poison herself while in a somnambulant condition.
1830Lytton Paul Clifford xvi. (1874) 193 The pair..mounted the stairs, arm-in-arm, in search of *somnambular accommodations. 1860Mrs. Browning Napoleon III in Italy v, While the palpitating peaks break out Ecstatic from somnambular repose. 1862Lytton Str. Story 14 An ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance.
1827Sutherland 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.
1833Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 127 This inarticulate age which slumbers and *somnambulates. 1840― Diamond Necklace xiv, His Eminence again somnambulates the Promenade de la Rose. 1873M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xiv. 178 The latter, sometimes over⁓eating themselves, somnambulate.
1876Contemp. Rev. June 126 A *somnambulating philosophy.
1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 325 Though in its greatest degree it has been called *somnambulation or sleep-walking, it is totally different from that sleep. 1803Beddoes Hygëia ix. 130 The lady, whose reverie or somnambulation is described. 1862G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod iii. xvii, The next day she had a bad head-ache. This with her always followed somnambulation.
1822Prichard Dis. Nervous Syst. I. 404 Hoffmann cites the case of a *somnambulator, which [etc.].
1837J. F. Cooper Europe II. 288 A woman, who was subject to the magnetic influence, or who was what is commonly called a *somnambule. 1850J. Braid Observ. Trance 30 The same discretion ought also to be extended to the modes of testing somnambules. 1877Symonds Renaiss. It. iii. 147 Walking..like a somnambule sustained by an internal dream.
1829I. Taylor Enthusiasm i. (1850) 10 The enthusiast passes through life in a sort of happy *somnambulency. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. iii. (1872) VII. 138 For nations have their somnambulencies.
1841C. Mackay Pop. Delusions III. 366 The patient was thrown into the *somnambulic state. 1862G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod ii. xxxi, A reproduction of some previous somnambulic experience. 1880A. H. Huth Life & Writ. Buckle I. 34 He..woke the landlady whose somnambulic figure..had just frightened him.
1887Sat. Rev. 11 June 848 When he wakes, he finds that he has *somnambulically made a pen-and-ink sketch.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 534/2 Subject to that singular affection or disease called *Somnambulism or sleep-walking. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. lxxv, The soldiers..Walked out of quarters in somnambulism. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 93 In somnambulism..the secondary consciousness takes control of the whole individual.
1794M. Wollstonecraft Hist. View Fr. Rev. I. 275 It was dangerous to awaken a *somnambulist on the brink of a precipice. 1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Spectre of Tappington (1905) 23 Never again was Lieutenant Seaforth known to act the part of a somnambulist. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 308 A revolution had been effected in Europe by a somnambulist peasant girl. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 158/1 Somnambulists have been observed to write letters or reports,..and play upon musical instruments.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop (1867) 304 A *somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep. 1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross I. 216 A black little naked urchin sits on the splinter-bar, continually goading his somnambulistic team. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 167 Very rarely the patient may be also somnambulistic.
1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross II. 289 The slaves glided about silently and *somnambulistically, or stood with folded arms watching for a sign. a1893Symonds in H. F. Brown Life (1895) I. 71, I did not doubt that my spirit could somnambulistically travel from the place.
1832Figaro in London 3 March 52/1 When he *somnambulizes upon the stage. c1850Whittier Tales & Sk., Mag. & Witch Folk Prose Wks. 1889 I. 400 A ‘wise woman’ dreamed, or somnambulized, that a large sum of money..lay buried in the centre of the great swamp.
Add: somnambulant a.: hence somˈnambulantly adv.
1920E. Sitwell Children's Tales 12 The puppets move somnambulantly through the dark of our hearts. 1983Financial Times 5 Apr. 15/6 The ENO had a chorus involved in its work, not somnambulantly detached therefrom. 1987I. McEwan Child in Time i. 8 She walked slowly, somnambulantly. |
