dormitive principle

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف dormitive principle 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

And to any intelligent reader, explanation of an 'inherent ability' was reminiscent of Molière's mock explanation of the soporific effects of opium - that it contained a 'dormitive principle'.

المصطلحات ذات الصلة

dormitive principles

plural form of dormitive principle

الواصلة

dormitive Prin·ci·ple

المترادفات

dormitive virtue

علم أصول الكلمات

() A modern 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".