Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lincture .
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- noun medicine Any
syrupy medication ; especially aremedy forcoughs
Etymologies
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Examples
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To treat my cough, I wanted the pink linctus with the double action: it both soothes your throat AND brings back happy memories of a time when you were loved.
Never ask a sales person for advice amuchmoreexotic 2008
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In fever attended with singultus, give asafoetida, oxymel, and carrot, triturated together, in a draught; or galbanum in honey, and cumin in a linctus, or the juice of ptisan.
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A fourth part of a pound of cleaned beans, and twelve shoots of madder having been triturated, are to be mixed together and boiled, and given as a linctus with some fatty substance.
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Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water.
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L-onie recognised some road signs and advertising posters for aperitifs, for wax polish and cough linctus, but it was not a world she knew.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement.
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But I am going to do it: I will get some codeine linctus to suppress my cough.
Ready to speak out Rachel 2006
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But I am going to do it: I will get some codeine linctus to suppress my cough.
Archive 2006-03-01 Rachel 2006
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He was a short, fat, squint-eyed, florid-faced, devious drone whose profession was administering linctus to racehorses: the kind of disaster only the Greens could rely on.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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"Was he?" said Cadfael abstractedly, pounding herbs in a mortar for a linctus.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
chained_bear commented on the word linctus
"'He was in a sad decline, in spite of what little we could do for him in the way of bark and steel and linctus. But Fabien very kindly kept me one of his hands, recollecting my interest in the singular calcification of its sinews.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 228
A Sea of Words defines linctus as "A solid medicine ingested by licking it like a lollipop."
March 16, 2008
qms commented on the word linctus
A skunk came last night and he stinked us.
I count this event a distinct plus:
There's little that's minus
In clearing the sinus
And giving the throat a swift linctus.
August 20, 2017