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somniloˈquacious, a. rare—0.
[See somni- and loquacious a.]
‘Talking or apt to talk in sleep’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1731). Also somˈniloquence, = somniloquy. somˈniloquent a., talking in sleep. somˈniloquism, = somniloquy. somˈniloquist, one who speaks or talks while asleep. somˈniloquize v. intr., to talk in (or as in) sleep. somˈniloquous a., ‘apt to talk in sleep’ (Webster, 1847). somˈniloquy, the act or habit of speaking during sleep.
1841W. C. Dendy Philos. Mystery 306 True *somniloquence is often preceded by a cataleptic state. Ibid. 304.
1804Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. (1882) CXXXI. 123 The Ideatæ are but *somniloquent Ideotæ.
1821― Ibid. X. 244 The *somniloquism of the prophetesses under the coercion of the Scandinavian enchanters.
1833― in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 397 How often the pen becomes the tongue of a systematic dream,—a *somniloquist! 1866Cornh. Mag. Aug. 231 We may even be prompted to the action of the somnambulist, or somniloquist, without waking. a1901Myers Human Personality (1903) II. 6 The somnambulist, or rather the somniloquist.
1827Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. (1882) CXXXI. 119 Is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens *somniloquise in such a mystifying cant?
1847Webster, *Somniloquy, the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 757 Sleep-talking or somniloquy, and sleep-walking or somnambulism, are states in which the whole brain is not asleep. |