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Morphean
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English
Etymology
From en Morpheus an.
Pronunciation
en /mɔːˈfiːən/ /ˈmɔːfi.ən/ UK
Adjective
en literary Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric. from 17th c.
The Eve of St. Agnes XXIX 97 Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon / Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set / A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon / A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:— / O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!
en 1824 w:James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 8 Oxford 2010 The laird did not awake in any reasonable time; for, he being overcome with fatigue and wassail, his sleep became sounder, and his Morphean measures more intense.
Anagrams
en aehmnopr nephroma
en eponyms
en Sleep