somnambulise

present singular third person somnambulises · participle present somnambulising · participle past somnambulised · past somnambulised

1. alternativeAlternative form of somnambulize.

   “There's no good getting up,” I thought, “for if I do I shall somnambulise, and maybe break my rather pleasing nose.”

   1905, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, My Friend the Chauffeur, page 85

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   This patient begged her magnetiser not to try such experiments with her, as otherwise he might somnambulise her when she was in a very inconvenient situation.

   1839, John Forbes, John Conolly, The British and Foreign Medical Review of Quarterly Journal or Practical Medicine and Surgery

   Fortunately he did not somnambulise on that occasion, and the whole party arose safe and sound, very hungry and very cold, at daybreak.

   1881, Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, page 446