Lubric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lubric is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
Meaning
(obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
Example Sentences
No eel was ever more lubric.
Why does he corrupt his fellow-citizens by treating the moſt lubric and wanton of all ſubjects, and reviving the idea of Lucian's Amores?
17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312, O wretched we! why were we hurried down / This lubric and adulterate age, / (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own) / To increase the steaming ordures of the stage?
His own letter ſent down with the bill canvels it; and Waterton, his own brother, depones on the veriſimilitude of his ſubſcription: and there can be nothing more lubric and conjectural, than to find a writ falſe on the mathematical points of the longitudes and angles of letters and ſubſcriptions[…].
Word Forms
- lubrical
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lubricious, slick, glib, gliddery, greasy, lubricous.
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