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dormitive

adj

Etymology

From French dormitif, from the verb dormir (“to sleep”)

  1. derived from dormitif

Definitions

  1. Causing sleep.

    • But "imitation" throws no light upon why they so act; it repeats the fact as an explanation of itself. It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power.
    • Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.)

  2. A medicine to promote sleep

    A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA