philter
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Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done by force.
From Time Magazine Archive
To these lowly, solitary men, who knew nothing beyond their own fields and coppices and wastelands, its excitement came like a magic philter to change the monotony of their days.
From The Waters of Edera by Ouida
I am absolutely in love; when she looks at me, when I touch her hand, when her dress rustles against me, I feel, as it were, a philter running through my veins.
From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Octave Feuillet
She often finds in religion a curious philter, both a sedative and a stimulant.
From The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George
Every bane has its corresponding antidote; if so, there may be physic even for a philter.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary."
From Time Magazine Archive
These descriptions ought to have been written by Tiberius at Caprea—they are forced—the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
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