The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Presently the news of her sickness came to the King; so he sent her sherbets and sugar electuaries.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Seed′-oy′sters, very young oysters; Seed′-pearls, very small or imperfect pearls strung together on horse-hair and attached to mother-of-pearl, &c., for ornament—used also in the composition of electuaries, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
By the mouth.—Medicines can be given by the mouth in the form of solids, as powders or pills; liquids, and pastes, or electuaries.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Nor had the King's physician forgotten the King's health; for we find a special entry amongst the royal disbursements of the sum of £10 7s., paid to Josephus Medicus for spices and electuaries.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
