ppl. a. Obs. rare. [See SOMNI- and -FY.] Inducing sleep.
1634. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 40. He also discoursed of … hemlock, which he said was of a most venomous, somnifying, stupifying, and intoxicating quality.
1770. Chatterton, in Masson, Life, II. iii. (1874), 163. This somnifying liquor had made her voice so like the sweet echo of Miss Hill’s that … I should absolutely have imagined it hers.
