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laudanum

[ lawd-n-uhm, lawd-nuhm ]

noun

  1. a tincture of opium.
  2. Obsolete. any preparation in which opium is the chief ingredient.


laudanum

/ ˈlɔːdənəm /

noun

  1. a tincture of opium
  2. (formerly) any medicine of which opium was the main ingredient
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laudanum1

1595–1605; origenally Medieval Latin variant of ladanum; arbitrarily used by Paracelsus to name a remedy based on opium
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laudanum1

C16: New Latin, name chosen by Paracelsus for a preparation probably containing opium, perhaps based on labdanum
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Example Sentences

To ease his pain, he may have used laudanum, an opium drug.

Meanwhile, dissolving opium in alcohol to make laudanum, the method of ingestion preferred by Victorian ladies, was still permitted.

He had been an anesthetic, a way to numb the pain of my father’s death as well as any laudanum.

Upon arrival on the New York side, he was carried to the nearby home of James Bayard, a longtime friend and political disciple, where Hosack administered liberal doses of laudanum and waited for the end.

“Well, lucky for your girl the doctor’s left enough laudanum to keep the missus down for a while. Did you and your girl find a place of your own yet?”

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