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somnolence|ˈsɒmnələns|
Also 4–6 sompnolence.
[a. OF. sompnolence (mod.F. somnolence, = Sp. somnolencia, Pg. so(m)nolencia, It. sonnolenza), or ad. L. somnolentia (med.L. sompnolencia), f. somnolentus: see somnolent a.]
Inclination to sleep; sleepiness, drowsiness.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋705 Than comth Sompnolence, þat is sluggy slombryng. 1390Gower Conf. II. 94 That I no Sompnolence have used. c1425Orolog. Sapient. iii. in Anglia X. 349/32 Wolte þou be ouerlayde with sompnolence and ydelnesse. c1475Partenay 4616 Ho-so do slepe..in sompnolence there, Alway perpetuall there abide shall he. 1542Boorde Dyetary xix. (1870) 279 Onyons doth prouoke a man..to sompnolence.
1721in Bailey. 1841W. C. Dendy Philos. Mystery 367 Somnolence.—Trance.—Catalepsy. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lxvi. (1865) VIII. 237 The dignified somnolence of an old-fashioned city like Athens. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. ii, The people had dined and the usual somnolence had followed.
personif.1390Gower Conf. II. 92 Ther is yit on of compaignie, And he is cleped Sompnolence. |