Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An invigorating beverage of some kind; a tonic.
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Examples
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The electric bath as a diagnostic; as an equalizer of the circulation; as a general counter-irritant; as a general invigorant and tonic — Its hypnotic and sedative influence — Its improvement of nutrition — As a prophylactic 52
The Electric Bath George M. Schweig
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The sweat bath was in common use among almost all the tribes north of Mexico excepting the central and eastern Eskimo, and was considered the great cure-all in sickness and invigorant in health.
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So was he, a moral invigorant, the stimulator to noble action, the centre of spiritual charm.
Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885
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He was wet and cold, and the exercise acted as a lively invigorant.
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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The sweat bath was in common use among almost all the tribes north of Mexico excepting the central and eastern Eskimo, and was considered the great cure-all in sickness and invigorant in health.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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A group of writers, especially of writers who were in revolt against big business and the corruption of the trusts, were about to effect a combination and start what was to be called the _National Magazine_; for it was to be no less than that, a magazine embracing all America, to serve as a re-invigorant and re-corroborant for new national ideals ... really only a tilting against the evils of big combinations, in favour of the earlier and more impossible ideals of small business units -- the ideal of a bourgeois commercial honesty and individual effort that could no more be re-established than could the big shoe factory be broken up and returned to the shanty of the village shoemaker ....
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Cannabis came to be regarded in Brazil as the opium of the poor, used for cordage and clothing, comestible and spice, energizer and invigorant, as well as medicine and euphoriant. ([
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