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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A drug mixed with sugar and water or honey into a pasty mass suitable for oral administration.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pharmacy, a medicine composed of powders or other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey, or syrup, originally made in a form to be licked by the patient.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine Any preparation of a medicine mixed with honey or similar in order to make it more palatable to swallow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under confection.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin electuarium, from Ancient Greek ἐκλείκτον (ekleikton, "medicine which is licked away"), from ἐκλείχω (ekleikhō, "I lick up"), from ἐκ (ek, "out, from") + λείχω (leikhō, "I lick"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English electuarie, from Late Latin ēlēctuārium, probably alteration of Greek ekleikton, from ekleikhein, to lick up : ek-, out; see eghs in Indo-European roots + leikhein, to lick; see leigh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Maijûn, a kind of electuary, in which both men and women indulge to excess.”

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

  • ““Very weakly, sir, since I took the electuary,” answered the patient; “it neighboured ill with the two spoonfuls of pease-porridge and the kirnmilk.””

    The Abbot

  • “Now there was in the bazar a man who was Deputy Syndic of the brokers and was given to the use of opium and electuary and green hashish. 28 He was called Shaykh Mohammed Samsam and being poor he used to wish Shams al-Din good morrow every day.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “Take of my electuary with a spoon after supping, and wash it down with a sherbet made of rose conserve; but first sup off mutton and house pigeon plentifully seasoned and hotly spiced.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “She did his bidding and, when she served up the meats, he ate the evening meal, after which he called for the bowl and ate of the electuary.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “The European equivalent, “Venice treacle,” (Theriaca Andromachi) is an electuary containing many elements.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “Fernelius and others; diasena, diapolypodium, diacassia, diacatholicon, Wecker's electuary de Epithymo, Ptolemy's hierologadium, of which divers receipts are daily made.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Having cut some bulbs or squill, boil in water, and when well boiled, throw this away, and having poured in more water, boil until it appear to the touch soft and well-boiled; then triturate finely and mix roasted cumin, and white sesames, and young almonds pounded in honey, form into an electuary and give; and afterwards sweet wine.”

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases

  • “He invented an electuary for the cure of fluxes, and in 1730, in The Danger of”

    The Journal to Stella

  • “Trikatu is another traditional Ayurvedic electuary commonly made and used by people living near water.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. electary
  2. lectuary
  3. letuary
  1. lituary
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  3. diatessaron
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  1. confection
  2. mithridate
  3. tablet
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  2. diapente
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  • knitandpurl ""You require the use of my prism ship and my fungal electuaries. I remain uncertain of the benefits to myself.""
    "The Return of the Fire Witch" by Elizabeth Hand, p 225 of Errantry: Strange Stories Apr 30, 2013

  • chained_bear I think this word can also refer to a book containing recipes for remedies, in the same way that an "Herbal" can be a book containing information about plants. See the following hideously titled book:

    "Electuarium Novum, or, a new Cordial, Alexiterial and Restorative ELECTUARY; Which may serve for a succedaneum to the grand Theriaca Andromachi. The Theriaca examined, with Reasons humbly offered why the Troches should be ejected, as well as a great Number of the rest of the Ingredients. A New Correction of Theriaca most humbly proposed, and, with due Deference, submitted to the superior and impartial Judgment of the Royal College of Physicians; and dedicated to the most Honoured the President, the justly Honoured the Censors, with their most worthy Brethren the Elect, and the rest of the Fellows of that most Honourable SOCIETY."
    By the Reverend Mr. Harward, a Licentiate of the Royal College, and Lecturer of the Royal Chappel at Boston in New-England.
    BOSTON: Printed by B. Green, and Sold by the Booksellers. 1732.
    Price Two Shillings Jan 28, 2009

  • yarb Citation on onion. Jan 1, 2009

  • bard A drug mixed with sugar and water or honey into a pasty mass suitable for oral administration. Flavoured cough syrup and medicines for kids are electuaries. Jun 17, 2008

  • brtom He ought to physic himself a bit. Electuary or emulsion.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 5 Dec 31, 2006

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