Definition of Opium taker

1. Noun. Someone addicted to opium.

Exact synonyms: Opium Addict
Generic synonyms: Drug Addict, Junkie, Junky

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opium Taker

opisthosomas
opisthosomata
opisthotic
opisthotics
opisthotonic
opisthotonoid
opisthotonos
opisthotonus
opitulation
opium addict
opium alkaloid
opium den
opium poppies
opium poppy
opium taker (current term)
opiumism
opiumisms
opiumlike
opiums
ople tree
ople trees
oplock
oplocks
opo-
opobalsamum
opodeldoc
opodeldocs
opodidymus

Literary usage of Opium taker

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

1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"And then he asked me what view I took with regard to the reliability of the testimony of any opium-taker, and I said I thought it was absolutely unreliable. ..."

2. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... though probably in the same year of grace as the older poet, Shelley w;as so liberal an opium-taker that the drug's influence on the nervous system must ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"... of the opium taker; once habituated to his dose as a factitious stimulant, everything will be endured rather than the privation ; and the unhappy being ..."

4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1839)
"Sir,1' said he, " I am an inveterate opium taker, and I have by slow degrees fallen into this melancholy excess. But of the diurnal twenty-four periods of ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"There is no slavery so complete as that of the opium-taker : once habituated to his dose as a factitious stimulant, everything will be endured rather than ..."

6. The Opium Trade: Including a Sketch of Its History, Extent, Effects, Etc by Nathan Allen (1853)
"There is no slavery so complete as that of the opium taker: once habituated to his dose as a factitious stimulant, everything will be 5 ..."

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