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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lawd-n-uh m, lawd-nuh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɔd n əm, ˈlɔd nəm

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Définition of laudanum

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Modern Latin laudanum (1540s), coined by Paracelsus for a medicine he mixed, supposed to contain gold and crushed pearls and many expensive ingredients, but probably owing its effectiveness to only one of them, opium. Perhaps from Latin laudare "to praise," or from Latin ladanum "a gum resin," from Greek ladanon, a word perhaps of Semitic origin. The word soon came to be used for "any alcoholic tincture of opium." Latin ladanum was used in Middle English of plant resins, but this is not regarded as the source of the 16c. word.
  • As in narcotic : noun powerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleep
Example sentences :
  • But forego, if possible, your pernicious stimulant of laudanum.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Her spirits are remarkably high—not an uncommon effect of laudanum.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The second of these lines it is which betrays the presence of laudanum.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various
  • He must have seen, as I saw, that she wanted the laudanum to poison herself.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various
  • The doctor recovered himself when she asked for the laudanum.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various
  • It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.
  • Extract from : « The Four Million » by O. Henry
  • In this interval he was induced to swallow forty drops of laudanum.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
  • And lastly, two or three drops of laudanum according to the age of the child.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
  • M. M. Opium in very small doses, as three drops of laudanum.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
  • Don't let her get any laudanum, or anything; and presently report to me.
  • Extract from : « Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter » by Lawrence L. Lynch
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