English

Adjective

Morphean ‎(comparative more Morphean, superlative most Morphean)

1. (literary) Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric. [from 17th c.]
   • 1820, John Keats, ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’:

     A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:—

     O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 8:

     The laird did not awake in any reasonable time; for, he being overcome with fatigue and wassail, his sleep became sounder, and his Morphean measures more intense.