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Definition of Dormitive

Dormitive
Dormitive Dor"mi*tive, a. [Cf. F. dormitif, fr. dormire to sleep.] Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. --Clarke. -- n. (Med.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

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- doctor Argan blandly explaining that opium causes sleep by virtue of its dormitive [sleep-making] principle, its virtus dormitiva. Argan's explanation is...
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- "answers" the question of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its dormitive virtue (i.e., soporific power)." Thomas Henry Huxley compared vitalism...
- overview[permanent dead link] (in French) English translation on the Gutenberg Project dormitive principle - a term coined in the play. The Imaginary Invalid public domain...
- when asked why opium made people go to sleep, spoke of it having a "dormitive virtue" (a sleep-inducing factor): "If you know something about the design...