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Philter   Listen
verb
Philter  v. t.  (past & past part. philtered; pres. part. philtering)  
1.
To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.
2.
To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.





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"Philter" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, set like diamonds in clay, lend to the most arid arguments their own incomparable splendour, or that homelier beauty which instantly pierces the defences of the heart. Not diffident as we, but of a nature so infinitely absent and reserved that in the legend his wife must concoct a philter to remind him of his love, he is of all the pagans the best companion for our angrier moods. An archaic and elemental serenity is upon his language and thought, rebuking our unprofitable petulance; if emotion gains him he finds utterance in those tremendous periods "where single words ...
— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith


Words linked to "Philter" :   love-philtre, love-potion, philtre, love-philter


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