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Definition of Quietener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quietener
Literary usage of Quietener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vivisection, Scientifically and Ethically Considered in Prize Essays by James Macaulay, Brewin Grant, Abiathar Wall (1881)
"... not the relief of the victim, is the defence given for the using of curari,
which is no anaesthetic, but a quietener, as Dr. Sharpey observed of it, ..."
2. Vivisection, scientifically and ethically considered, essays by J. Macaulay by James Macaulay, Brewin Grant (1881)
"... not the relief of the victim, is the defence given for the using of curari,
which is no anaesthetic, but a quietener, as Dr. Sharpey observed of it, ..."
3. The Asclepiad. v. 3, 1886 by Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"... the attendants were detected in the act of dressing the insane under a system
of the most astounding kind called by them " the long stocking quietener ..."
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