a. rare. [a. older F. somnial, or ad. L. somniāl-is, f. somni-um dream.] Of or relating to dreams.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xiv. 120. To presage or foretell an evil … in matter of Somnial Divinations.
1833. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 397. The Somnial magic superinduced on … the active powers of the mind.
