Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a fabled drink credited with magical power; it can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
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- noun a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it
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Examples
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Rumor has it that she may have given him something called a "love-philter" to keep him impotent and away from her.
Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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We are assured that, before Protestantism weakened the hands of priests and rent the Church asunder, consecrated oil was regarded as an infallible charm and love-philter.
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I am often asked if I carry a love-philter with me. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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I am often asked if I carry a love-philter with me. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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Or maybe that cheap smell about her is a love-philter!
Frances Waldeaux 1897
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Arkwright thought her eyes wonderful; the sweet, powerful yet delicate odor of the lilac sachet powder with which her every garment was saturated set upon his senses like a love-philter.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889
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He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy -- which he liked to call firm determination -- Nemu's cunning, and the love-philter.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Katuti feigned ignorance, listened to the story of the love-philter, and played the part of the alarmed mother very cleverly.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy -- which he liked to call firm determination -- Nemu's cunning, and the love-philter.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Katuti feigned ignorance, listened to the story of the love-philter, and played the part of the alarmed mother very cleverly.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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