Obs. Forms: 1 somniʓean, somnian, 3 somnien (somni), somnen, sompnen, some(n). [OE. sǫmnian, var. of samnian: see SAM v.1 and cf. SUMNE v.] trans. To assemble, gather, collect, unite.

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  α.  c. 825.  Vesp. Psalter cxxviii. 7. Of ðæm ne ʓefylleð … his sceat se ðe reopan somnað.

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a. 1000.  Phœnix, 193. Þa swetestan [he] somnað & gædrað wyrta wynsume.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 135. In halie chirche þer alle cristene men aȝen to beon isomned to gedere.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 4152. He somenede færd. Ibid., 30628. Þer heo gunnen somnien scipen uniuoȝen.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 186. Wult tu to-dealen þet God haueð isompned?

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a. 1250.  Prov. Ælfred, 34, in O. E. Misc. He ou wolde wyssye … hw ye myhte … eure saule somnen to criste.

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  β.  c. 1205.  Lay., 5122. Þa weoren al þas leoden at Lundene isomed. Ibid. (c. 1275), 18631. Þo hii to-gadere weren alle hi-somed.

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