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Definition: Laudanum |
LaudanumNoun1. Narcotic consisting of a tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laudanum" was first used: 1543. (references) |
Etymology: Laudanum \Lau"da*num\, noun. [Orig. the same wort as ladanum, ladbdanum: compare to the French expression laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. See Ladanum.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | Prays for himself--after taking. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own; and that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others. You should cultivate determination. To prevent others from taking this drug, indicates that you will be the means of conveying great joy and good to people. To see your lover taking laudanum through disappointment, signifies unhappy affairs and the loss of a friend. To give it, slight ailments will attack some member of your domestic circle. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | A hydroalcoholic tincture containing 10 percent opium; a solution of opium. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the 19th century, laudanum was used in many patent medicines to "relieve pain... to produce sleep... to allay irritation... to check excessive secretions... to support the system... [and] as a sudorific". The lack of any genuine treatments meant that opium derivatives were one of the few substances that had any effect, and so laudanum was prescibed for ailments from colds to meningitis to cardiac diseases in both adults and children.
The Victorian era was marked by the widespread use and abuse of laudanum in England, Europe and the United States. Initially a working class drug (it was cheaper than a bottle of gin or wine, because it was treated as a medication for legal purposes, not taxed as an alcoholic beverage); it gained wider popularity, including among literary figures (de Quincey, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and Dickens) and politicians (Wilberforce).
See also: paregoric. Laudanum is also the name of a Roman fortress in the Asterix comic books.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laudanum."
Synonym: LaudanumSynonym: tincture of opium (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moderation | Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative. |
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Crosswords: Laudanum |
| English words defined with "laudanum": Wine of opium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laudanum": Misnomers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "laudanum": Laudanine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Laudanum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (laudanum), German (laudanum), Romanian (laudanum). |
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Sir Samuel Garth | Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. |
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| "Laudanum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laudanum" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
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Expressions using "laudanum": Dutchman's laudanum ♦ Sydenham's laudanum. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
laudanum | 68 |
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| Language | Translations for "laudanum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tretësirë opiumi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اللودنوم مستحضرأفيوني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | опиева тинктура, лауданум. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opiová tinktura. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laudanum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laudanum (big O, black stuff, opium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laudanum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | laudanum (big O, black stuff, opium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαύδανο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ópiumkivonat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | laudano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | laudane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | audanumlay laudano, são (able-bodied, are, Hale, healthful, healthy, sane, sound, they are, well balanced, whole, wholesome). (various references) laudanum. (various references) настойка опия. (various references) tinktura opijuma. (various references) láudano. (various references) สารละลายของฝิ่นผสมแอลกอฮอล์. (various references) afyon tentürü. (various references) настойка опію. (various references) Lauddanom, c"n thuốc phiện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ladanum. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "laudanum": laudanums. (additional references) | |
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"Laudanum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: claudianus, laudamus, Laudianism, Laudnum, Londinium, Lugdunum, Lutudarum, Saolanum. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laudanum" (pronounced lô"dunum) |
| 5 | -d u n u m | duodenum. |
| 4 | -u n u m | acronym, aluminium, aluminum, arcanum, lanthanum, organum, tympanum. |
| 3 | -n u m | denim, granum, interregnum, magnum, molybdenum, phenom, platinum, plenum, venom. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-m-n-u-u" | |
-1 letter: ladanum. | |
-2 letters: alumna, landau, manual. | |
-3 letters: adman, aland, almud, daman, dunam, lauan, maund, ulama, ulnad. | |
-4 letters: alan, alma, alum, anal, auld, damn, dual, duma, lama, land, laud, luau, luna, mana, maud, maul, maun, nada, ulan, ulna, unau. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, ama, amu, ana, and, dal, dam, dun, lad, lam, lum, mad, man, mud, mun, nam, ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-m-n-u-u" | |
+1 letter: laudanums. | |
+5 letters: submandibular, unmanipulated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 75 64 61 6E 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ..- -.. .- -. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110101 01100100 01100001 01101110 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a u d a n u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0075 0064 0061 006E 0075 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667877067808779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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