Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Addiction to narcotics such as opium, heroin, or morphine.
- noun Narcosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The influence exerted by narcotics, or the effects produced by their use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Narcosis; the state of being narcotized.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
narcotic effect; the tendency to causenarcosis . - noun
Addiction to anarcotic drug .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It inhabits dry places, especially birchwoods, and pinewoods, having a bright red upper surface studded with brown warts; and when taken as a poisonous agent it causes intoxication, delirium, and death through narcotism.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The desire to sleep was intoxicating, delicious, irresistible; and with it ran delicious, restful thrills through all his limbs, the narcotism of the blood.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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By administering them after meals I give nutrition the start of narcotism, prevent the violent action possessed by stimulants and opiates on the naked stomach, and secure a slower, more uniform distribution of the effects throughout the day.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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This was in 1860; but only four years afterwards we find the English physician quoted above, Dr. Anstie, in his "Stimulants and Narcotics," recognising "a kind of chronic narcotism, the very existence of which is usually ignored, but which is, in truth, well marked and easy to identify as produced by habitual excess in tea and coffee."
Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade
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Opium so employed does not produce narcotism, and does not constipate the bowels.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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The depths of repose that follow the enjoyment of the young irrigated their limbs, filling the sensuous nerves and arteries with a delicious narcotism -- a deep, quiet, healthful sleep, lulled by the chant of the serene mother-forest.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Department and having the function of enforcing the provisions of the Harrison Act have long been convinced that there is a direct relationship between Radicalism and narcotism.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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If there had been no narcotism there would have been no appearance of collapse.
Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895
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The symptoms described by Dr. Deaver are those of collapse, following perforation, diffuse peritonitis to be followed soon by death, or of narcotism -- morphine paralysis, soon to be described _in extenso _when we come to treatment.
Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895
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Such deceptions come through drunkenness and narcotism.
The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men David Starr Jordan 1891
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