dormitive

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A similar confusion is satirized by Moliere when he has his pompous doctor announce that his sleeping potion works because of its dormitive virtue.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

This is the dormitive I take to bedward.

From England's Antiphon by MacDonald, George

To say that goods command a price because they have power in exchange is like saying that opium puts men to sleep because it has a dormitive power.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

He would not have seen anything comic in the satire of Molière making his chorus of young doctors chant in unison that opium causes sleep because it has a dormitive virtue.

From Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by Santayana, George