Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing or tending to cause sleep: as, the dormitive properties of opium.
- noun A medicine which has the property of producing or promoting sleep; an opiate; a soporific.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing sleep.
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- adjective Causing
sleep . - noun A
medicine to promotesleep ; asoporific oropiate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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John Tarrant on “Placebo, chronic fatigue and dormitive principles”
Shambhala SunSpace » John Tarrant – Escape Arts in Delusionville 2009
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Allen's dormitive argument regarding the "Intelligent" in "Intelligent Design" was lame when he said it it's still a non-starter.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Allen's dormitive argument regarding the "Intelligent" in "Intelligent Design" was lame when he said it it's still a non-starter.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Allen's dormitive argument regarding the "Intelligent" in "Intelligent Design" was lame when he said it it's still a non-starter.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Saying X is intelligent because it created the CSI is circular (dormitive principle): You explain how CSI is created by intelligence, and you know it was intelligence only because it created the CSI.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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This is the dormitive principle problem that we have talked about.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle:
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Intelligence is not defined as that which is intelligent, and Allen and your dormitive accusation is unjustified.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Intelligence is not defined as that which is intelligent, and Allen and your dormitive accusation is unjustified.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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You could simply redefine athleticism as "that which enables things to move around", but then you have a dormitive principle.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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