2. Verb. (third-person singular of opiate) ¹
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Definition of Opiates
1. opiate [v] - See also: opiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opiates
Literary usage of Opiates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"opiates in grievous pains, as in the stone, or the cutting off of a limb, ...
opiates obtain a good effect from a bad cause ; for the flight of the spirits ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"I found the custom of giving powerful doses of opiates after the operation, on
the decline in the last half of the quadrennial period ; and my conclusion on ..."
3. Illicit Drug Use, Smoking and Drinking by America's High School Students by Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman (1993)
"... S 20- FIGURE 60 Other opiates: Trends in Annual Prevalence Among College
Students Vs. Others 1-4 Years Beyond High School • Full-Time College Students a ..."
4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"wards, our efforts will be limited to the relief of pain by opiates or other
anodynes, ... Combinations of colchicum with opiates or other narcotics, and, ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1847)
"The great object of Dr. Seymour in this chapter is to recommend and enforce the
great utility of opiates and other sedative and hypnotic medicines in ..."
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