virtus dormitivan.

Brit.

/ˌvɪətʊs dɔːmᵻˈtiːvə/,

/ˌvəːtəs dɔːmᵻˈtʌɪvə/, U.S.

/ˌvɪrdʊs dɔrməˈtivə/,

/ˌvərdəs dɔrməˈtaɪvə/

Inflections: Plural unchanged.

Forms:

α. 1800s– virtus dormitiva.

β. 1900s– vertus dormitiva.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin virtus dormitiva.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin virtus dormitiva dormitive property (1673 in Molière: see below) < classical Latin virtus virtue n. + post-classical Latin dormitiva , feminine of dormitivus dormitive adj.Originally with reference to the following lines in Act III of Molière's Le malade imaginaire (1673): ‘Mihi a docto doctore Domandatur causam et rationem quare Opium facit dormire. A quoi respondeo, Quia est in eo Vertus dormitiva, Cuius est natura Sensus assoupire.’ ‘I am asked by the learned doctor the cause and reason why opium causes sleep. To which I reply, Because it has a dormitive property, whose nature is to lull the senses to sleep.’ In β. forms with alteration of the first element after French vertu virtue n.; compare French vertu dormitive (1724 or earlier; after post-classical Latin virtus dormitiva).

1. A sleep-inducing property or effect of a drug. Also in extended use.Often with reference to Molière's satirization in Le malade imaginaire (1673) of the circular explanations sometimes used in early medicine. See note in etymology and cf. sense 2.

ΚΠ

1858 Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 15 Feb. 61/2 This mode of explanation always brings vividly to my mind Molière's saying about the virtus dormitiva in opium.

1893 P. Geddes Chapters in Mod. Bot. v. 78 For though we may all laugh with Molière at old-world medicine, it is no easy matter to leave its virtus dormitiva out of our minds.

1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 201/1 Perhaps to obtain the full effect of the virtus dormitiva that lies in serious poetry it should be read to us in a droning monotone.

1965 W. Durant & A. Durant Age of Voltaire v. 177 For us today, hurried with all our leisure, Pope's couplets..possess a virtus dormitiva.

2004 A. Hüttemann What’s Wrong with Microphysicalism? ii. 22 One of the characters explains the sleep-inducing capacity of opium by attributing a virtus dormitiva to the drug.

2. Philosophy. An explanation which merely restates in different (esp. overly technical or abstract) words the very thing which is to be explained; a circular or tautological explanation.

ΚΠ

1905 Mind 14 558 It is even suggested that abiotrophy..may be due to food or some toxic substance. It is well to see positive causes taking the place of virtus dormitiva and all that kind.

1978 D. C. Dennett Brainstorms (1981) iv. 57 There can be no doubt that convicting a theory of relying on a virtus dormitiva is fatal to that theory.

1997 P. Novák Mental Symbols iv. 72 It is already clear that the classical posit of ideas as meaning-bearing entities is not a virtus dormitiva.

2007 Jrnl. Philos. 104 428 A virtus dormitiva if ever I saw one.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2), as virtus dormitiva explanation, virtus dormitiva objection, etc.

ΚΠ

1951 Language 27 567 It is of course supremely important to guard in each case against giving a tautological, virtus-dormitiva pseudo-explanation.

1982 Analysis 42 217 There isn't here a bogus explanation of the virtus dormitiva sort.

1985 J. McDowell in G. Sayre-McCord Ess. Moral Realism (1988) viii. 174 A ‘virtus dormitiva’ objection would tell against the idea that one might mount a satisfying explanation of an object's looking red on its being such as to look red.

2002 J. Campbell Reference & Consciousness xii. 242 In effect, we have a virtus dormitiva explanation here.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	virtus dormitiva
释义	virtus dormitivan. Brit. /ˌvɪətʊs dɔːmᵻˈtiːvə/, /ˌvəːtəs dɔːmᵻˈtʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˌvɪrdʊs dɔrməˈtivə/, /ˌvərdəs dɔrməˈtaɪvə/ Inflections: Plural unchanged. Forms: α. 1800s– virtus dormitiva. β. 1900s– vertus dormitiva. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin virtus dormitiva. Etymology: < post-classical Latin virtus dormitiva dormitive property (1673 in Molière: see below) < classical Latin virtus virtue n. + post-classical Latin dormitiva , feminine of dormitivus dormitive adj.Originally with reference to the following lines in Act III of Molière's Le malade imaginaire (1673): ‘Mihi a docto doctore Domandatur causam et rationem quare Opium facit dormire. A quoi respondeo, Quia est in eo Vertus dormitiva, Cuius est natura Sensus assoupire.’ ‘I am asked by the learned doctor the cause and reason why opium causes sleep. To which I reply, Because it has a dormitive property, whose nature is to lull the senses to sleep.’ In β. forms with alteration of the first element after French vertu virtue n.; compare French vertu dormitive (1724 or earlier; after post-classical Latin virtus dormitiva). 1. A sleep-inducing property or effect of a drug. Also in extended use.Often with reference to Molière's satirization in Le malade imaginaire (1673) of the circular explanations sometimes used in early medicine. See note in etymology and cf. sense 2. ΚΠ 1858 Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 15 Feb. 61/2 This mode of explanation always brings vividly to my mind Molière's saying about the virtus dormitiva in opium. 1893 P. Geddes Chapters in Mod. Bot. v. 78 For though we may all laugh with Molière at old-world medicine, it is no easy matter to leave its virtus dormitiva out of our minds. 1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 201/1 Perhaps to obtain the full effect of the virtus dormitiva that lies in serious poetry it should be read to us in a droning monotone. 1965 W. Durant & A. Durant Age of Voltaire v. 177 For us today, hurried with all our leisure, Pope's couplets..possess a virtus dormitiva. 2004 A. Hüttemann What’s Wrong with Microphysicalism? ii. 22 One of the characters explains the sleep-inducing capacity of opium by attributing a virtus dormitiva to the drug. 2. Philosophy. An explanation which merely restates in different (esp. overly technical or abstract) words the very thing which is to be explained; a circular or tautological explanation. ΚΠ 1905 Mind 14 558 It is even suggested that abiotrophy..may be due to food or some toxic substance. It is well to see positive causes taking the place of virtus dormitiva and all that kind. 1978 D. C. Dennett Brainstorms (1981) iv. 57 There can be no doubt that convicting a theory of relying on a virtus dormitiva is fatal to that theory. 1997 P. Novák Mental Symbols iv. 72 It is already clear that the classical posit of ideas as meaning-bearing entities is not a virtus dormitiva. 2007 Jrnl. Philos. 104 428 A virtus dormitiva if ever I saw one. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2), as virtus dormitiva explanation, virtus dormitiva objection, etc. ΚΠ 1951 Language 27 567 It is of course supremely important to guard in each case against giving a tautological, virtus-dormitiva pseudo-explanation. 1982 Analysis 42 217 There isn't here a bogus explanation of the virtus dormitiva sort. 1985 J. McDowell in G. Sayre-McCord Ess. Moral Realism (1988) viii. 174 A ‘virtus dormitiva’ objection would tell against the idea that one might mount a satisfying explanation of an object's looking red on its being such as to look red. 2002 J. Campbell Reference & Consciousness xii. 242 In effect, we have a virtus dormitiva explanation here. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1858
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