dormitive virtue

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Определение dormitive virtue в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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

Расстановка переносов

dormitive vir·tue

Синонимы

dormitive principle

Этимология

() 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".