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Webster 1913 Edition


Morphean

Mor′phe-an

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Adj.
Of or relating to
Morpheus
, to dreams, or to sleep.
Keats.

Definition 2024


Morphean

Morphean

English

Adjective

Morphean (comparative more Morphean, superlative most Morphean)

  1. (literary) Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric. [from 17th c.]
    • 1820, John Keats, ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’:
      A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:—
      O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 8:
      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.