- a variation of philter.
philtre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of philtre
C16: from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron love potion, from philos loving
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He never had a thought of the old life at home with his mother, so completely had the nymph's philtre done its work.
From Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 by Rossiter Johnson
She shall brew, doubly brew a philtre of love, strong enough to warm the icy Chios were he ten times colder than the snows on Tmolus.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
When Bellerophon awoke, the philtre was in his hand, and he knew now that he should accomplish the task which the Lykian King had given him to do.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
Would a philtre serve as a spell to win her?
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
Upon re-entering Yemen, he, like Niebuhr, was robbed of his collections and baggage, upon the pretext that he collected animals, in order to compose a philtre, with the intention of poisoning the springs.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
I could not gaze into his sorrowful eyes, and not see in them “Love’s philtred euphrasy.”
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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