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anodyne
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{adj} {n}
synonyms: emollient, lenitive ???
tags: [Rx]
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Definition:soothing to pain or feelings---a medicine that allays pain, whether acting on the nerves and nerve terminations (aconite, belladonna, cocaine), on the brain (chloral, Indian hemp), or on all these parts (opium, bromide of potassium). [Gr.; a, an, neg., and odynē, pain.]Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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The extract of belladonna is considerably stronger than the extract of hyoscyamus. Like other solanaceous plants, this is powerfully narcotic and anodyne. Sleep is produced only by the use of the drug in large doses, which also tend to excite delirium, sometimes even reaching to the height of maniacal fury.
Henry M. Lyman. Insomnia; and other Disorders of Sleep (1885)
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It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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When Madam Bovary had gone, he tried timidly and in the same terms to hazard one or two of the more anodyne observations he had heard from his mamma. Emma proved to him with a word that he was mistaken, and sent him off to his patients.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.349, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/349/mode/1up
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