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Philter   Listen
verb
Philter  v. t.  (past & past part. philtered; pres. part. philtering)  
1.
To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.
2.
To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.





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"Philter" Quotes from Famous Books



... melancholy time, and suitable to reverie, Blanche was in the house sitting in her chair in deep thought, because nothing produces more lively concoctions of the substantive essences, and no receipt, specific or philter is more penetrating, transpiercing or doubly transpiercing and titillating than the subtle warmth which simmers between the nap of the chair and a maiden sitting during ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac
... and such constellations, knots, amulets, words, philters, &c., which generally make the parties affected, melancholy; as [1276]Monavius discourseth at large in an epistle of his to Acolsius, giving instance in a Bohemian baron that was so troubled by a philter taken. Not that there is any power at all in those spells, charms, characters, and barbarous words; but that the devil doth use such means to delude them. Ut fideles inde magos (saith [1277]Libanius) in officio retineat, tum in ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


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


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