philtre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of philtre
C16: from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron love potion, from philos loving
Example Sentences
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Man was saying: "How be sure Beauty's favour to secure, Nor the subtle philtre try?"
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
It was also imagined that the tail of the wolf contained a hair, which acted as a love philtre and excited the tender passion.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
There was nothing too mean, too repulsive, for the domestic brute—the cicisbeo, the priest, the half-witted page—to undergo, in the stupid belief that the power of a philtre increased with its nastiness.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
As for the Lieutenant he is quite charming; and even the ultra-farcical episode of his falling in love with the king owing to a philtre is well carried off.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
It is the very cup of Circe�the very philtre of Sun-poison.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
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