pa. pple. Obs. [f. DREAM sb. or v.; exact formation uncertain. The form is that of a pa. pple. of a vb. *adream, or dream. No instances of the vb. a-dream have been found; and the prefix is prob. A particle, southern form of the ppl. prefix y-, as in a-been. See DREAM v.] In phr. To be adreamed: to be visited by a dream, to dream.
1556. Withals, Dict. (ed. 1634. in Nares). Hee is adreamd of a dry summer.
1605. Play of Stucley, 359, in Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 172. I was adreamt to night that he paid me all.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 76. I was a Dreamed that I sat all alone.
1736. Fielding, Pasquin, IV. i. I was a-dream’d I overheard a ghost.
