Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A love potion.
- noun A magic potion or charm.
- transitive verb To enchant with or as if with a philter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A potion supposed to have the power of exciting sexual love; a love-potion.
- To impregnate with a love-potion: as, to
philter a draught. - To excite to sexual love or desire by a potion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To impregnate or mix with a love potion.
- transitive verb To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.
- noun A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To impregnate or mix with a love potion.
- verb To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.
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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness."
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness."
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread.
Chapter 11 2010
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He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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Charles the Great enforced to love basely by a philter
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Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.
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Aphonsi, hath a story of one Stephan, a Neapolitan knight, that by a philter was forced to run mad for love.
johnmperry commented on the word philter
also philtre
July 24, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word philter
Also see philtrum.
April 27, 2015