Morphean

English

Etymology

From Morpheus +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːˈfiːən/, /ˈmɔːfi.ən/

Adjective

Morphean (comparative more Morphean, superlative most Morphean)

1. (literary) Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric. [from 17th c.]
   • 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXIX, page 97:

     Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon / Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set / A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon / 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, published 2010, page 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.

Anagrams

• nephroma