Laudanum

Quick meaning: Laudanum is a noun meaning Any of several tinctures of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.

Meaning

Any of several tinctures of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
2. (rare) To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.

Example Sentences

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Whatever else was wanting to a wise man's happiness, —of laudanum I would have given him as much as he wished, and in a golden cup.

Laudanum, a derivative of opium, was the name given to a secret remedy concocted by the occultist Paracelsus, in the sixteenth century.

In Sydenham’s 1683 treatise on the disease, for the sudden onset of violent symptoms he recommended laudanum — a tincture of opium and alcohol — to take the edge off the pain; […]

Word Forms

• laudanums
• laudanuming
• laudanumed

Related Words

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