Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A somnambulist.
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- noun A somnambulist.
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- noun archaic A
somnambulist .
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Examples
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Jackson may have been telling the truth under hypnosis but he could also have been lying . . . or, if he is indeed a natural somnambule as Geller implies, his recollections of the events could have been changed due to the way Geller structured his questions and their sequence throughout the session.
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Couldn't say if she is a natural somnambule or not, but in any case it is a natural aptitude that can take one very far in many ways, not just the interesting ways we've been discussing here.
Life of Brian: 2005
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Couldn't say if she is a natural somnambule or not, but in any case it is a natural aptitude that can take one very far in many ways, not just the interesting ways we've been discussing here.
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Jackson may have been telling the truth under hypnosis but he could also have been lying . . . or, if he is indeed a natural somnambule as Geller implies, his recollections of the events could have been changed due to the way Geller structured his questions and their sequence throughout the session.
Life of Brian: 2005
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Presently, as usual, the fair somnambule began talking in her sleep; her mother entered, as usual, into conversation with her; and, at length, asked, "But what have you done with your new ball-dress?"
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Revelation, "purporting to be the last conversation of a somnambule, held with his magnetizer just before his death, which was followed by the yet more striking exhibition of abilities in the same way, entitled" The
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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The vision of no puling fantastic girl, of no sick-bed somnambule, but of a strong man, with a vigorous brain.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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In one case the photographic plate was placed on the sofa, three feet from the entranced somnambule.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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Through the entranced somnambule the "double" was then informed of the experiment, and asked to place its hand upon the three plates in succession, willing on each occasion to make the fluidic hand smaller.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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The somnambule shivers and feels cold in her lower limbs, despite the fact that my laboratory is very warm.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
qroqqa commented on the word somnambule
About her head there was an effulgence as of phosphorus glowing about the circumference of a body of water—as if her life lay through her in ungainly luminous deteriorations—the troubling structure of the born somnambule, who lives in two worlds—meet of child and desperado.
—Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
November 19, 2008