dormitive virtue

İngilizce - İngilizce

dormitive virtue teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

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

Heceleme

dormitive vir·tue

Eş anlamlılar

dormitive principle

Etimoloji

() 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".