opiate
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See also: Opiate
English
Etymology
From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
opiate (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
- Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
- Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
Noun
opiate (plural opiates)
- (pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
- Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, (please specify the sermon), London: , published 1692–1693:
- They chose atheism as an opiate.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 230:
- The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.
Hypernyms
Translations
Verb
opiate (third-person singular simple present opiates, present participle opiating, simple past and past participle opiated)
- (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.
See also
Latin
Adjective
opiāte
Lithuanian
Noun
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