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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narcotic \Nar*cot"ic\ (n[aum]r*k[o^]t"[i^]k), a. [F. narcotique, Gr. narkwtiko`s, fr. narkoy^n to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. [1913 Webster] -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
Narcotic \Nar*cot"ic\ (n[aum]r*k[o^]t"[i^]k), n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.
Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkotikon, neuter of narkotikos "making stiff or numb," from narkotos, verbal adjective of narcoun "to benumb, make unconscious," from narke "numbness, deadness, stupor, cramp" (also "the electric ray"), perhaps from PIE root *(s)nerq- "to turn, twist." Sense of "any illegal drug" first recorded 1926, American English. Related: Narcotics.
c.1600, from Middle French narcotique (14c.) or German narkotisch and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticus, from Greek narkotikos (see narcotic (n.)). Related: Narcotical (1580s).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to narcotics. 2 Inducing sleep; causing narcosis. n. 1 Any class of substances or drugs, that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour. 2 Any type of numbing drug. 3 Certain illegal drugs.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor"
inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" [syn: narcotizing, narcotising]
inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: soporiferous, soporific]
n. a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
Wikipedia
The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as hydrocodone). Legally speaking, the term "narcotic" is imprecisely defined and typically has negative connotations. When used in a legal context in the U.S., a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of governmental regulation, such as heroin or cannabis.
In the medical community, the term is more precisely defined and generally does not carry the same negative connotations.
Statutory classification of a drug as a narcotic often increases the penalties for violation of drug control statutes. For example, although federal law classifies both cocaine and amphetamines as "Schedule II" drugs, the penalty for possession of cocaine is greater than the penalty for possession of amphetamines because cocaine, unlike amphetamines, is classified as a narcotic.
Narcotic is an album by Muslimgauze.
Narcotic, refers to medical or psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties. In the United States it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex.
Narcotic or Narcotics may also refer to:
- Narcotic (album), album by Muslimgauze
- "Narcotic" (song), song by Liquido
- Narcotics (film), 1932 German drama film directed by Kurt Gerron and Roger Le Bon
Usage examples of "narcotic".
The root when incised secretes from its wounded bark a yellow juice of a narcotic odour and acrid taste.
As expected, they contained two main components: harmless colourants or flavourings designed to make them look or taste good, and doses of addictive narcotics.
Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.
The circumstances and conditions of the system increase or diminish the effects of medicine, so that an aperient at one time may act as a cathartic at another, and a dose that will simply prove to be an anodyne when the patient is suffering great pain will act as a narcotic when he is not.
But narcotic effects have been known to follow the chewing of Caraway seeds in a large quantity, such as three ounces at a time.
Even the use of a temporarily debilitating narcotic drug could be interpreted by the Cetacea as the use of violence.
Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline.
Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape, narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.
Some persons suppose that when artificially blanched the plant is less wholesome than if left to grow naturally in the garden, especially if its ready digestibility by those of sensitive stomachs be correctly attributed to the slightly narcotic principle.
So will marijuana, magic mushrooms, coca shrubs, dilly beans, pseudopoon, rakka, hebenon, and a host of other recreational narcotic plants.
Beaumont was a narcotics agent planted at Ironwood Ranch for entrapment purposes.
Fortunately, codeine is a rather mild narcotic, not nearly so powerful as what the Junkman took in by smoking.
Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Even the narcotic anatagonists such as nalorphine, pentazocine and cyclazocine, which have analgesic activity also have addiction liability.
The nickname stood for narcolepsy rather than narcotics and arose from an incident during their senior year when Bertie, a second-string tight end, had nodded off during the Class 3A football playoff between Cedar Dell and Bowie High.