morphia

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See also: -morphia

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morphia (countable and uncountable, plural morphias)

  1. Synonym of morphine
    • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIV, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
      The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.
    • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363:
      “Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”

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