PAREGORIC

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

2.
n.

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.


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