Obs. [a. med.L. subet(h), ad. Arabic subāt ‘somnus in capite apparens,’ lethargy, f. sabata to rest (cf. SABBATH). Cf. obs. F. subet.] Unhealthy or morbid sleep.

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  Subeth Avicennæ was an old name for coma.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. iii. (1495), 107. Whan he slepith it happith him to haue Subeth, that is false reste.

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c. 1550.  Lloyd, Treas. Health, Y 7. Of the payne in the heade called subeth.

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1626.  Middleton, Anything for Quiet Life, II. iv. Subject to Subeth, unkindly sleeps, which have bred opilations in your brain.

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