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Definition of Narcotically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narcotically
Literary usage of Narcotically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1836)
"That is, when they act narcotically, the body is insensible to the local irritation;
and when they irritate, the dose is not large enough to act ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"... yawning over the last French novel, in the oppressive atmosphere of a narcotically
perfumed boudoir ; then suddenly she would order her horse to be ..."
3. Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough: With Twenty-six by John Bartholomew Gough (1870)
"The libel also speaks of your being narcotically and helplessly intoxicated.
Now, I must ask you whether, with opium, or spirits, or wine, or fermented ..."
4. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by George Gordon Byron Byron (1830)
"Or country Crispins, now grown somewhat stale, Twin Doric minstrels, drunk with
Doric ale I Hark to those notes, narcotically soft, The cobbler-laureates ..."
5. John B. Gough: The Apostle of Cold Water by William Carlos Martyn (1893)
"Your friend St. Bartholomew has often been seen narcotically and helplessly
intoxicated. I believe him to be as rank a hypocrite and as wretched a man as ..."
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