Dormitive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dormitive is an adjective meaning Causing sleep.
Meaning
Causing sleep.
More Meanings
- A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.
Example Sentences
Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.)
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.
Word Forms
- dormitives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include somnifacient, somnorific, somnogenic, soporific, somniferous, sedative.
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