10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOMNIFIC»
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The Herald of Truth: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the ...
It has been suggested by a friend who has perused this paper so far, that the
somnific effects above described may not take place with universal promptness in
every case — or, that perhaps we have not given the subject that wide and
general ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel ...
Sleep-walking. Somnambulist, n. Sleep-walker, night- walker, noctambulist.
Somniferous, a. Soporific, soporifer- ous, slumberous, somnific, narcotic. Somnific
, a. Somniferous. Somnolence, n. Sleepiness, drowsiness, doziness, somnolency
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
Slow moving, sluggish: languid VIII. Light sleep: dysnystaxis, levisomnous Ix.
Role: 1. One who is sleepless: alector 2. Day sleeper: dewdropper x. Sleep
inducing: somnifacient, somniferous, somnific, sopient, soporific, soporose/
soporous xI.
James L. Reynolds, MD,
2014
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Medicina Britannica Or A Treatise On Such Physical Plants, ...
The Flowers are the weakest Part of the Plant ; of them is made a Conserve and
Syrup, which is not so somnific as Diacodium, but more-so than Syrup of Violets.
A Pedilavium of the Flowers (or of the Leaves, when the Flowers are not to be ...
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Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
If they are Somnific, I suppose they must be\ 'Narcdtic in addition; but I never
witnessed any Somnific effect from either of the species that I have employed. I ' A
' J' ' Lunuu'r,sr.usrnn (Ltnn.) LEDUM LATIFOLIUM (Ait0n.) I Ianr verystrongly ...
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A dictionary of etymology of the English language: and of ...
Somn,-i/s, m. 2. sleep : as, somnif' erous or somnific, causing or inducing sleep.
imom'nious, o. £omnambula'tion,n.som'nolence, n. •f-somnam'bulist, n.
somniferous, a. som'nolency, n. som nanVbulUm, n. somnific, a. Jsowi 'nolent, a.
SoN-t/s ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language on a Plan ...
Somn-to, m. 2. sleep : as, somniferous or somnific, causing or inducing- sleep.
insom'nious, a. somnatnbula'tion, n. som'nolence, n. fsoi/wiam'bulist, n.
somniferous, a. som'nolency, n. somnanVbulism, n, somnific, a. Jsom'nolent, a.
Sos-us, m.
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy,
1844
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Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
i Then there was that kind of artificial, induced sleep which about the seventeenth
century began to be distinguished as " somnific witchcraft " ; it was no other than
one form of the phenomena now called hypnotism and magnetism.
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Medicina Britannica : Or, A Treatise on Such Physical Plants ...
A Pedilavium of the Flowers (or of the Leaves, when the Flowers are not to be got
) Purslane, Camomile, and Willow Leaves, with a few Beech Ashes and Salt, is a
surprising Somnific, in hot Fevers, with Watchings and Delirium j where Opiates ...
... effect — stereos, deep, solid, plus phone. 6. A noctambulist (nok-TAM'-bya-list)
walks at night — nox, noctis, night, plus ambulo, to walk. Noun: noctambulism (
nok- TAM'-bya-liz-am). 7. Somnific (som-NIF'-ik) : a somnific lecture, movie, ...
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... and a specialist, a Dr. Rodgers, had come to administer "the Lethean or somnific gas," although able to risk only a small dose because of her weakness. «Toronto Star, Sep 07»