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“[or] Laudani Liquidi (Tincture 12 oz. 2 lb. of opium; thebaic tincture; liquid laudanum; and Sydenham's laudanam).”
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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chained_bear "... prepared a hot, a very hot poultice, clapped it on and hurried out into the town, returning with a phial of Thebaic tincture."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 171
A Sea of Words: "Of or derived from opium. The name refers to Thebes, an ancient Egyptian city, because Egypt was the source of the best opium. Thebaic tincture=laudanum." (p. 436) Mar 25, 2008