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单词 somniferously
释义

somniferously

English

Etymology

somniferous + -ly

Adverb

somniferously (comparative more somniferously, superlative most somniferously)

  1. In a somniferous way.
    • 1827, Thomas Moore, “Corn and Catholics”, in The poetical works of Thomas Moore:
      While, leaders of the wheat, a row / Of Poppies, gaudily declaiming, / Like Counsellor O'Bric and Co., / Stand forth, somniferously flaming!
    • 1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists:
      Shortly afterwards the effects of exertion and the glass combined operated so somniferously on the upper works of Scroggy, that he laid down his head and went to sleep.
    • 1944 February 1, Edmund Wilson, “Thoughts on being bibliographied”, in Princeton University Library Chronicle:
      Of the writers in their late forties or their fifties, some go on rather somniferously bringing out just the same kind of books that they were writing with more energy twenty years ago; and others, who have practised an intenser art and seemed to promise self-renewal, are in a state of suspended animation.
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