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Middle English
Noun
opie
- opium
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1470-1474:
For he had yive his gayler drinke so
Of a clarree, maad of a certeyn wyn,
With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn,
That al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake,
The gayler sleep, he mighte nat awake; [...]- For he had so given his jailer drink
Of a spiced and sweetened drink made of a certain wine,
With narcotics and pure opium of Thebes,
That all that night, though men would shake him,
The jailer slept; he could not awake;