Crossword clues for paregoric
paregoric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paregoric \Par`e*gor"ic\, a. [L. paregoricus, Gr. ?, from ? addressing, encouraging, soothing; para` beside + ? an assembly: cf. F. par['e]gorique. See Allegory.] Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
Paregoric \Par`e*gor"ic\, n. (Med.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"medicine that soothes pain," 1704, from adjective (1680s) "soothing," from Late Latin paregoricus, from Greek paregorikos "soothing, encouraging, consoling," from paregorein "speak soothingly to," from paregoros "consoling," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + root of agoreuein "speak in public," from agora "public assembly," from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (see gregarious).
Wiktionary
a. Assuaging or soothing pain. n. a painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain
WordNet
n. medicine used to treat diarrhea [syn: camphorated tincture of opium]
Wikipedia
Paregoric, or camphorated tincture of opium, also known as tinctura opii camphorata, is a medication known for its antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic properties.
Usage examples of "paregoric".
Paregoric Paregoric is tincture of opium and camphor in a combined solution, medically used in controlling diarrhea.
From then on, I carried a bottle of paregoric in one pocket and a bottle of bismuth subnitrate in the other.
I had taken two courses of sulfaguanidine and still carried a bottle of paregoric and a bottle of bismuth in each hip pocket.
CHAPTER TWELVE GOING HOME Throughout our time on Guam I continued to go on patrols and to perform my duties as war dog veterinarian with a bottle of paregoric in one back pocket and one of bismuth subnitrate in the other.
These bitter words appeared powerfully to affect the Marquis, but after a stunned moment he pulled himself together, and recommended his sister, in faint but soothing accents, to retire to bed with a paregoric draught.
The doctor gave him some sort of a paregoric medicine, when I sent for him this morning.
Their conviction that we were lost was forgotten in the cheer of a good supper, and before the reaction had a chance to set in, I loaded them up with paregoric and put them to bed.
She took a wineglass from the table, went to the bureau, and poured paregoric until the glass was half full.
Doc, who had just finished filling a prescription, handed a customer a bottle of paregoric for her baby who was teething.
He often had to get up out of bed at all hours and go down and open up the drugstore for mothers who needed paregoric or cough medicine for sick children, or else it would be Tot Whooten on the phone calling to have Doc go find her mother, who had wandered off, or else help her get James off the lawn and into the house before the sun came up.
The woman from the boarding-house, whom everybody knew was addicted to paregoric, an opiate.
Reaching within the neatly arranged interior, he retrieved a bottle of paregoric, an old remedy his mother used to force on him when he was a child.
As the trial dragged on, Randolph had tried to rectify the damage, proposing that Jeffrey had taken paregoric for diarrhea.
They are drinking Victory Punch, compounded of paregoric, Spanish Fly, heavy black rum, Napoleon brandy and canned heat.
I went on back to my place and heated up some water and mixed up some paregoric and cloves and cinnamon and sassyfrass and give it to Liz, and it eased her some I reckon.