The process of falling asleep. / (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself. / (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.

plural of dormition

Causing sleep.

A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

plural of dormitive

plural of dormitive principle

(idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

(idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

plural of dormitive virtue