Sekirov Dictionary

dormitive

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3
phrases 2

adjective1

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Causing sleep.
- Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.) — 1673

noun1

A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

forms

dormitives · more dormitive · most dormitive

Phrases with dormitive

dormitive principle
A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
dormitive virtue
A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

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