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English
Etymology
French dormitif, from the verb dormir (“to sleep”)
Adjective
dormitive (comparative more dormitive, superlative most dormitive)
- Causing sleep.
1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education: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.
1673, Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), Le Malade Imaginere, Act III, Interlude iii:Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.)
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Noun
dormitive (plural dormitives)
- A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.
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Further reading
- “dormitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dormitive”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “dormitive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Adjective
dormitive
- feminine singular of dormitif