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Dormitive

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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