somnambulise

English

Verb

somnambulise (third-person singular simple present somnambulises, present participle somnambulising, simple past and past participle somnambulised)

1. Alternative form of somnambulize
   • 1839, John Forbes, John Conolly, The British and Foreign Medical Review of Quarterly Journal or Practical Medicine and Surgery:

     This patient begged her magnetiser not to try such experiments with her, as otherwise he might somnambulise her when she was in a very inconvenient situation.

   • 1881, Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, page 446:

     Fortunately he did not somnambulise on that occasion, and the whole party arose safe and sound, very hungry and very cold, at daybreak.

   • 1905, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, My Friend the Chauffeur, page 85:

     “There's no good getting up,” I thought, “for if I do I shall somnambulise, and maybe break my rather pleasing nose.”