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somniferous, a.|sɒmˈnɪfərəs|
[f. L. somnifer (f. somni- somni- + -ferre to bring) + -ous. Cf. F. somnifère, Sp. and Pg. somnifero, It. sonnifero.]
1. Inducing sleep; soporific.
1602Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 255 Twas I that ministred to her chaste bloud, A true somniferous potion, which did steale Her thoughts to sleepe. 1633Brome Antipodes ii. iv, You slept most part o' th' journey hitherward, The aire was so somniferous. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 345 A safe and moderately somniferous medicine in feavers. 1754Dodsley Agric. iii. 215 The scarlet poppy..Bows his somniferous head, inviting soon To peaceful slumber the disorder'd mind. 1799Underwood Dis. Childr. (ed. 4) I. 360 If it follow any somniferous disease. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, The wine had exerted its somniferous influence. 1876Harley Royle's Mat. Med. 764 The effects..of the other somniferous constituents of opium.
2. Somnolent, sleepy.
1798in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799) II. 400 A most somniferous Earl gave violent symptoms of animation. 1809Irving Knickerb. (1861) 153 Those fat, somniferous, respectable burghers.
Hence somˈniferously adv.
1836New Monthly Mag. XLVI. 13 His translations..were somniferously dull. a1852Moore Corn & Catholics ix. Poet. Wks. (1872) 392 A row Of Poppies..Stand forth, somniferously flaming! 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 110 By degrees the heat, and the silence,..operated somniferously on Val. |