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Definition of Drugging

1. Noun. The administration of a sedative agent or drug.

Definition of Drugging

1. Verb. (present participle of drug) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drugging

1. drug [v] - See also: drug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drugging

Literary usage of Drugging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine by Fritz Wilhelm Woll, Alfred Fournier, Martha Meir Allen (1900)
"drugging." THE main reason why so many people use patent medicines is the popular supposition that drugs cure disease. This is a great error. ..."

2. Sexual Science: Including Manhod, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations by Orson Squire Fowler (1870)
"drugging, BLEEDING, &c., MOST PERNICIOUS. Those who come to their accouchement with good health, need not fear a lingering or painful "getting up. ..."

3. Forty years in the wilderness of pills and powders, or, The cogitations and by William Andrus Alcott (1859)
"A DOSING AND drugging FAMILY. FOR'several months of the ftrst year of my medical life, I was a boarder in a family, all of whom were sickly. ..."

4. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"Consumption in Great Britain.—Its use as an indulgence in this country.—drugging of children, and its effects. ..."

5. Yorke the Adventurer, and Other Stories by Louis Becke (1901)
"Fish drugging in the Pacific IN an American magazine of a few months ago mention was made of the "discovery " of a method of capturing fish by impregnating ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"drugging WITH FELONIOUS INTENT. The administration of stupefying drugs though not DR to kill or facilitate a rape, may be a crime. ..."

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