OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5479

laudanum

/ˈlɔːdənəm/
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láudano
Any of several tinctures of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.
Ever since my recovery from the fever I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain…
Whatever else was wanting to a wise man's happiness, —of laudanum I would have given him as much as he wished, and in a golden cup.
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