Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities of absinth or wormwood; absinthic. Carlyle.
Etymologies
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absinthe + -ine
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Examples
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The letters further reveal that Mrs. Carlyle derived benefit - yes, and pleasure, too - in her own absinthine way from her visits to Lady
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