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Definition of Potions
1. potion [n] - See also: potion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potions
Literary usage of Potions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church : with Two by Joseph Bingham (1846)
"The council of Lérida puts those who destroy the conception in the womb, by
certain potions," into the same class with those that kill infants after they ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"THE BLACK POPPY : EIGHT REMEDIES. REMARKS ON SLEEP. OPIUM. REMARKS IN DISFAVOUR
OF THE potions KNOWN AS "ANODYNES, ..."
3. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker, Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay (1831)
"So he changes or disguises his potions, not with intention to deceive, but to
render them innocent and salubrious. For he studies to make the good he does ..."
4. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"X. Of their Customs in expressing their Love, their Love- potions, Incantations, fa.
... potions ..."
5. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Incantations, Specimens of by Charles Godfrey Leland (1891)
"THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY LOVE-CHARMS SHOES AND LOVE-potions, OR PHILTRES.
HEN a man has lost anything, or been robbed, he often has in his own mind, ..."
6. Sidonia the Sorceress: The Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal by Wilhelm Meinhold, Wilde (1894)
"... to learn the mystery of love-potions, but is hindered by Ciara and the young
Prince. WHEN Prince Ernest returned home after an absence of some days, ..."
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