OPIATE
\ˈə͡ʊpɪˌe͡ɪt], \ˈəʊpɪˌeɪt], \ˈəʊ_p_ɪ__ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of OPIATE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.
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Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.
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Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.
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To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.
By Oddity Software
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Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.
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Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.
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Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.
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To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.
By Noah Webster.
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A medicine containing or made from opium, that causes sleep, as laudanum; anything that soothes.
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Soothing; inducing sleep or quiet.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Any medicine that contains opium, and induces sleep: that which induces rest.
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Inducing sleep: causing rest.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A medicine containing opium. A medicine that procures sleep. An electuary ;-formerly, an electuary which contained opium.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland