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ˈdormitive, a. and n.
[a. F. dormitif, -ive (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. type *dormītīv-us, f. dormīre to sleep: see -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Causing sleep; soporific.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 80 b, Dormatiue potions, to procure deadly sleepe. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 338 Dormitive or Sleepifying. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 366 Accounting for opium making people sleep by its possession of a dormitive virtue.
†2. Sleeping through the winter. Obs. rare.
1694R. Burthogge Reason 241 In Snakes, in Dormice..and in other Dormitive Creatures.
B. n. A soporific medicine; a narcotic.
1619Lushington Repet. Serm. in Phenix (1708) II. 490 His Presence gave them a strong Dormitive, it wrought beyond Sleep. 1700Congreve Way of World iv. v, But for cowslip wine, poppy water and all dormitives. |