Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing sleep: tending to induce sleep; somniferous; soporific.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing sleep; somniferous.
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- adjective Causing
sleep ;somniferous .
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- adjective sleep inducing
Etymologies
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Latin somnificus; somnus sleep + facere to make.
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Examples
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Here, weariness and the somnific effects of a generous heat, speedily found him stretched at full length towards the fire, snoring away at a sound rate, the subject of their combined influence.
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