somnambular

English

Adjective

somnambular (comparative more somnambular, superlative most somnambular)

1. sleepy; 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “somnambular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)