Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - laudanum
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Laudanum
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n. a solution containing morphine and prepared from opium, formerly used as a narcotic painkiller. Etymology: mod.L, the name given by Paracelsus to a costly medicament, later applied to preparations containing opium: perh. var. of LADANUM ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n a substance containing the drug opium, used in the past to control pain and help people to sleep ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1543, Mod.L., coined by Paracelsus for a medicine he mixed, supposed to contain gold and crushed pearls and many expensive ingredients, but probably most effective because it contained opium. Perhaps from L. ladanum "a gum resin." The word soon came to be used for "any alcoholic tincture of opium." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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