dormitive virtue

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف dormitive virtue في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

A type of tautology in which an item is being explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words

الواصلة

dormitive vir·tue

المترادفات

dormitive principle

علم أصول الكلمات

() A calque translation of Latin, virtus dormitiva, coined by Molière in The Imaginary Invalid. In the play, he lampoons a group of physicians providing an explanation in macaronic Latin of the sleep-inducing properties of opium as stemming from its "virtus dormitiva".