hypnagogue

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  1. Something which induces sleep; a hypnotic. As a hypnagogue, the reading [to the British troops in 1796] of Pye's translation of Tyrtæus seems to have held its own with that of the Articles of War in our own day. N. and Q., 10th ser., III. 346.

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  1. Greek ὑτνος, sleep, + ἀγωγός, leading, bringing.
 

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