somnambulant

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  1. Walking in sleep; sleeping while in motion; also, characterized by somnambulism. The midnight hush is deep, But the pines—the spirits distrest— They move in somnambulant sleep— They whisper and are not at rest. J. H. Boner, Moonrise in the Pines.

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  • You hear the shabby shuffle of their somnambulant stutter and your skin begins to crawl. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Journals 'somnambulant rhythms, but this is a different kind of dull from The Go Master, where a most intriguing clash of cultures is drowned in a prettified sea of stately pageantry. —  GreenCine Daily
  • But every now and then, I was roused from my somnambulant state - induced no doubt by the dulcet tones of Jimmy Carter and Al Gore - by themes and remarks that left me bewildered. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • Dr. Siddiqui was surprised by the patient's somnambulant ability; while staying at a relative's house, she started the computer, used a password to log on to the operating system, loaded software to reach the e-mail service and then used her username and password to access the e-mail system. —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
  • I sat patiently through the somnambulant "Waiting For A Girl Like You", their 1982 uber-hit - 10 weeks at #2 on Billboard's Hot 100! —  PopMatters
 

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  1. from Latin somnus, sleep, + ambulan (t-)s, from present participle of ambulare, walk: see somnambulate, etc.
 

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