somniloquy (somnilokwi)

[ somnivolency (som-niv'ō-len-si), n.; pl. som nivolencies (-siz). [L. somnus, sleep, + LL. volentia, will, inclination, If these somnivolencies (I hate the word opiates on this occasion) have turned her head, that is an effect they frequently have upon some constitutions. Richardson , Clari a Harlowe, IV. xii. somnolence (som'no-lens), n. [ lence , F.somnolence = Pr.sompnolencia = Sp. Pg. somnolencia = It. sonnolenza , somnolent i a , somnulentia, ML. also sompnolentia , sompnilen tia , sleepine , Thanne cometh sompnolence , that is sloggy slombrynge, which maketh a man be hevy and dul in body and in soule. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. His power of sleeping, and his somnolence when he imagined he was awake, were his two most prominent charD. M. Wallace, Ru ia, v. act eristics.