somnambular

English

Adjective

somnambular (comparative more somnambular, superlative most somnambular)

1. sleepy; asleep or as if asleep
   • 1859, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Napoleon III in Italy:

     And while the palpitating peaks break out
     Ecstatic from somnambular repose
     With answers to the presence and the shout,
     We, poets of the people, who take part
     With elemental justice, natural right,
     Join in our echoes also, nor refrain.

References

• “somnambular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.