Laudanum Definition

lôdn-əm
noun
A solution of opium in alcohol.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • tincture of opium
verb
To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
Wiktionary

(rare) To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.

Wiktionary

Origin of Laudanum

  • Coined by Paracelsus for a tincture he made containing opium, from New Latin, from Latin laudare (“to praise"), or ladanum (“a gum resin"), from Ancient Greek λάδανον (ladanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, ladbdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. See ladanum.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin perhaps alteration of Medieval Latin labdanum labdanum labdanum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Laudanum Sentence Examples

  • Similar procedures are used for the intestine, and one of the best methods of treating the diarrhoea consequent upon the presence of irritating substances in the intestinal canal is to give a dose of castor-oil together with a few drops of laudanum.

  • Should she take laudanum, and end it, to have done with all hopes, schemes, debts, and triumphs?

  • Every effort was made to conceal the fact of occasionally administering laudanum, but it was at length admitted.

  • Thence till three, we labored with mustard poultices, laudanum, soda and ginger - Heavens!

  • The actual therapeutical resources of Paracelsus included a large number of metallic preparations, in the introduction of some of which he did good service, and, among vegetable preparations, the tincture of opium, still known by the name he gave it, laudanum.

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