The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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They are leaves, herbs, roots, barks, seeds, flowers, juices, distilled waters, syrups, juleps, decoctions, oils, electuaries, conserves, preserves, lohocks, ointments, plasters, poultices, troches, and pills.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
He sweated out his melancholy through his skin, and catched a loose cough, which I cured with electuaries, according to art.
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
Dese are confections, electuaries, sirups, conserves, ointments, odoraments, cerates, and gargarisms, for de skin, for de stomach, for de pruises and wounds, for de troat, and every ting pesides.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called slanlus or "heal-all;" of unguents loathsomely compounded, but at greatest length and with fullest rapture of his vile phlebotomy.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
For the beer which you get from his brewery is a better medicine for the people than all my electuaries can be.
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
