The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somnambulistic \Som*nam`bu*lis"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
Whether this was an intentional and waking departure,
or a somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her
sleep, may remain a subject of contention.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a somnambulist.
Usage examples of "somnambulistic".
In summary, what we have here is a child who, at age two and a half, appears to have developed, much earlier than one usually sees it, a somnambulistic form of hysteria .
Because a person in a somnambulistic state may enact an event that happened at an earlier time, but in that case the person would appear younger.
And yet here she was, enacting some prior event in a somnambulistic state in which she appeared to be actually older.
I was going to say that the nature and conditions of a hypnotic trance and a somnambulistic form of hysteria are entirely different.
In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.
In summary, what we have here is a child who, at age two and a half, appears to have developed, much earlier than one usually sees it, a somnambulistic form of hysteria .
I was going to say that the nature and conditions of a hypnotic trance and a somnambulistic form of hysteria are entirely different.
In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.
Patrick use on Frances when he was putting her into her somnambulistic trance.
This is, however, a verging toward the somnambulistic stage, for in deep catalepsy the patient does not speak or hear.
Patients in the cataleptic state can be brought into the somnambulistic by rubbing the top of the head.
While she was in the somnambulistic state he told her in her right ear that the weather was very fine, and at the same time another person whispered in her left ear that it was raining.
They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists.
The prizefighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
At last, towards dusk, she summoned a couple of her grooms to attend and light her, and made her way, ever in that odd somnambulistic state, to the gaol of Middelburg.