December 2011
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“in·am·o·ra·ta [in-am-uh-rah-tuh, in-am-] Show IPA
noun, plural -tas.
a woman...”
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Hypnobate
somnambulatorie:
n. a sleepwalker
In Fain v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky. 183, the defendant, a somnambulist, had gone to sleep in a public room in a hotel, and on being roughly awakened by a stranger, drew a pistol and killed him, imagining himself in danger. The court observed: ‘If the prisoner is and has been afflicted in the manner claimed and knew, as he no doubt did, his propensity to do ...