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DORMITIVE

Definition: DORMITIVE

DORMITIVE

Adjective

1. Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.

Noun

1. A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Dormitive \Dor"mi*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression dormitif, from dormire to sleep.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: DORMITIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-m-o-r-t-v"
	-2 letters: diorite, motived, timider, vomited, vomiter.
	-3 letters: devoir, divert, dormie, dotier, editor, mitier, mitred, motive, rioted, tidier, triode, viroid, voider.
	-4 letters: demit, dimer, diver, divot, doter, drive, droit, drove, idiom, idiot, imide, imido, ivied, medii, merit, metro, mired, miter, mitre, moire, moved, mover, movie, overt, remit, rimed, rived, rivet, roved, teiid, timed, timer, timid.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-m-o-r-t-v"
	+2 letters: improvident.
	+3 letters: divertimento.
	+4 letters: divertimentos, improvidently.
	+5 letters: ovariectomized, overmedicating, overmedication.
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Alternative Orthography: DORMITIVE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 52 4D 49 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. --- .-. -- .. - .. ...- .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01010010 01001101 01001001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0052 004D 0049 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384952474354435639

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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