Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A potion or draught designed to excite love; a philter.
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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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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The next performance, following on the heels of the first, was a love-potion farce, a form of farce with many variations.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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Some of us who like Barack Obama get accused of having drunk the Kool-Aid – or perhaps love-potion would be more accurate – and thus being too smitten by his rhetorical enticements to see him clearly for what he is.
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It would be just as reasonable to explain away the ghost in _Hamlet_ as the love-potion of Isolde; if we accept one we can accept the other, for in both the prime mover of the tragedy is supernatural.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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"I grant it," answer'd Psyche, "but I have a Dose at hand will infallibly do it" and therefore brought me a lusty bowl of satyricon, (a love-potion) and so merrily ran over the wonderful effects of it, that I had well-nigh suck'd it all off; but because
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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By and by they are thirsty, and a careless attendant finding the love-potion handy, gives it to them to drink.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Gorgias is still worse used: he is a mere _nominis umbra_, of whose bodily presence nothing is made visible; nor is so much as his name mentioned, except for the purpose of informing us that it was through his agency that the love-potion was administered to Leucippe, and that he has since been killed in the action against the buccaniers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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In the second act Isolda has been wedded to Marke, but the love-potion has worked well, and she has secret interviews at night with Tristan, whose sense of honor is deadened by the fatal draught.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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While Lucretius was engaged in this work, he fell into a state of insanity, occasioned, as is supposed, by a philtre, or love-potion, given him by his wife Lucilia.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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But Brangaena, her faithful attendant secretly changes the poisoned draught for a love-potion, so that they are inevitably joined in passionate love.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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While Lucretius was engaged in this work, he fell into a state of insanity, occasioned, as is supposed, by a philtre, or love-potion, given him by his wife Lucilia.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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