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Definition of Love-philter
1. Noun. A drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Love-philter
Literary usage of Love-philter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Medicine (1906)
"Now, in point of fact, the article includes two different things, namely the love
philter and the abortive drink. For the latter there can be no doubt, ..."
2. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"and administering of a love philter, and it was by a person to whom such an action
would seem utterly incongruous. A very gentle, retiring girl in a New ..."
3. Old-time Gardens, Newly Set Forth: A Book of the Sweet O' the Year by Alice Morse Earle (1901)
"Desperate certainly she was when she dared even to think of giving a love philter
to a minister. The recipe was clearly printed on the last page of an old ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"For of this awkward fact the love-philter is, after all, but an apologetic
symbolisation. After having tried to show as far as was possible within the given ..."
5. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"... Andreas by means of a magic love philter secured from an old Egyptian sorceress,
... supposing the desired love philter to be intended by Theodora for ..."
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