somniated

Verb

somniate (third-person singular simple present somniates, present participle somniating, simple past and past participle somniated)

1. To drowse.
   • ...but our powers not always in the same state of action, nor equally attentive to or rententive of the hints that were given, or things might be rendered more or less intelligible to us, as the powers of our soul were more or less dozed or somniated with the oppression of vapours from the body...1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
2. To cause to become drowsy.
   • As for Dreams, and the diversity of them, with their significations, we shall be more large in our second part, when we shall treat of somniating Physiognomy; but in the mean time consider these Rules, and their Interpretations, for they are worthy the observation.1671, Richard Saunders, Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie