▪ I. † somne, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 somniᵹean, 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.
| α c 825 Vesp. Psalter cxxviii. 7 Of ðæm ne ᵹefylleð..his sceat se ðe reopan somnað. a 1000 Phœnix 193 Þa swetestan [he] somnað & gædrað wyrta wynsume. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 135 In halie chirche þer alle cristene men aȝen to beon isomned to gedere. c 1205 Lay. 4152 He somenede færd. Ibid. 30628 Þer heo gunnen somnien scipen uniuoȝen. a 1225 Ancr. R. 186 Wult tu to-dealen þet God haueð isompned? a 1250 Prov. ælfred 34 in O.E. Misc., He ou wolde wyssye..hw ye myhte..eure saule somnen to criste. |
| β c 1205 Lay. 5122 Þa weoren al þas leoden at Lundene isomed. c 1275 Ibid. 18631 Þo hii to-gadere weren alle hi-somed. |
▪ II. † somne, v.2 Obs.
Forms: α. 3 someni, 3–4 someny, 4–5 somene, 5–6 somen. β. 4 somne.
[Variant of somony, etc., summon v., with weakening and subsequent elision of the second vowel. See also sompne v. and sumne v.]
trans. To summon.
| α 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3764 Is poer he let someny þat ysprad was wel wyde. Ibid. 10379 Þe pope..alle þe bissops of engelond let someni to rome. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 357 If þei somene symple men for þis accusing. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxii. 214 Grace..consailede hym and conscience the comune to someny. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 89 Ȝe..somen men and threten hem, bot if thai ȝif ȝou gode. |
| β c 1300 Leg. Rood (1871) 38 Þo þe giwes i-somned were, hi hadde schortliche gret fere. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 250 Þei ben hurlid & somnyd fro day to day, fro fer place to ferþere. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 201 Pictagoras..somnede hym to fore iuges. |
Hence † ˈsomning vbl. n. Obs.
| 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxii. 108 b, To warne the parties defendauntz thurgh somnyng ayene. 1529–30 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 349 Paid to a Somoner for Somenyng of M{supr} hiltons, preist, ij d. |