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during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist. Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and waking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention. Dickens.

To summon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. The somnial magic superinducted on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. Coleridge.

Somnial; somniatory. [R.]

Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [Obs. or R.] Urquhart.

Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

Causing sleep; somniferous.

Driving away sleep. [Obs.]

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

One who talks in his sleep.

Apt to talk in sleep.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

A person in a state of somniapathy.

Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]

Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.