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† aˈdreamed, aˈdreamt, pa. pple. Obs.
[f. dream n. or v.; exact formation uncertain. The form is that of a pa. pple. of a vb. *adream, or dream. No instances of the vb. a-dream have been found; and the prefix is prob. a particle, southern form of the ppl. prefix y-, as in a-been. See dream v.]
In phr. to be adreamed: to be visited by a dream, to dream.
1556Withals Dict. (ed. 1634 in Nares) Hee is adreamd of a dry summer. 1605Play of Stucley 359 in Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 172, I was adreamt to night that he paid me all. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 76, I was a Dreamed that I sat all alone. 1736Fielding Pasquin iv. i, I was a-dream'd I overheard a ghost. |