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- adjective Obsolete form of
narcotic . - noun Obsolete form of
narcotic .
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Examples
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Nor is it indeed to be much wondered at, when, according to Report, several of the Publicans make it their Business to study and practise this Art, witness what I am afraid is too true, that some have made use of the _Coculus India_ Berry for making Drink heady, and saving the Expence of Malt; but as this is a violent Potion by its narcotick stupifying Quality, if taken in too large
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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That it endeavoured to infuse a narcotick indifference, as to publick concerns, into the minds of the people, and that it broke out sometimes into an extreme coarseness of contemptuous abuse, is but too evident.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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In trying times like these, the besetting sin of undisciplined minds is to seek refuge from inexplicable realities in the dangerous stimulant of angry partisanship or the indolent narcotick of vague and hopeful vaticination: _fortunamque suo temperat arbitrio_.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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That it endeavoured to infuse a narcotick indifference, as to publick concerns, into the minds of the people, and that it broke out sometimes into an extreme coarseness of contemptuous abuse, is but too evident.
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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Its slightest attacks, therefore, should be watchfully opposed; and he that finds the frigid and narcotick infection beginning to seize him, should turn his whole attention against it, and check it at the first discovery by proper counteraction.
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Degree, never fail'd to correct this pretended Coldness in their narcotick Compositions, with Drugs extremely hot, as _Euphorbium_,
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