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Philter   Listen
noun
Philter  n.  (Written also philtre)  A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Philter" Quotes from Famous Books



... black sorrow creeping already to darken her happiness; her kinsman is slain, Romeo banished, and the coy maiden is changed at once to the devoted wife, capable of any sacrifice that will enable her to rejoin her husband, then follow the fearful drinking of the philter, the miscarriage of the Friar's scheme, and the death of the lovers, who seek in the grave that union denied them on earth. What varied qualities and acts are clustered here!—simplicity, love, hope, fear, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various



Words linked to "Philter" :   love-philter, love-potion, potion



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