laudanum

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  1. noun A tincture of opium, formerly used as a drug.

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  • Spink and I are so happy for them Even drugged with laudanum, there was no stopping Epiny once she started talking. —  Robin Hobb
  • I worried that she was taking the laudanum, and tried to make sense of her rambling confessions to me that night. —  Robin Hobb
  • Josephine had returned with a bottle of laudanum, and Claire dazedly drank the dose Josephine measured out, and then let herself be led back to her bed. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • "Some laudanum, then, Bridget, if you please," she said, and found herself reaching greedily for it five minutes later Was there ever such misery When Bridget started suggesting again that the Lord love her, Diana sent her downstairs for dinner. —  Mary Balogh - The Incurable Matchmaker
  • Watching Morse prepare the laudanum, the old man found himself admiring the performance. —  FSF,March2008
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  1. New Latin, perhaps alteration of Medieval Latin labdanum, labdanum; see labdanum.

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  1. A modern irreg. variant of ladanum.
 

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/ˈlɔdənəm/
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