Definitions for paregorics

paregorics par·e·gor·ic

Spelling: [par-i-gawr-ik, -gor-]
IPA: /ˌpær ɪˈgɔr ɪk, -ˈgɒr-/

Paregorics is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 805 anagrams from letters in paregorics (acegioprrs).

Definitions for paregorics

noun

  1. a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
  2. any soothing medicine; anodyne.

adjective

  1. Archaic. assuaging pain; soothing.

Origin of paregorics

1675-85; Late Latin parēgoricus Greek parēgorikós soothing, equivalent to parḗgor(os) pertaining to consolatory speech (equivalent to par- par- + -ēgor-, combining for

Examples for paregorics

Oh, my goodness me sakes alive and some paregoric lollypops!

There is a smell of camphor and paregoric, and a jingle of glass, and a display of woman's apparel.

She, carrying the babies, drugged with paregoric, in a basket on her arm.

“You had better have some cotton-wool and paregoric on it, then,” said her mother.

Boil them to a syrup; and when quite cold, add two table-spoonfuls of paregoric elixir, which is made in the following manner.

Syrup of poppies, syrup of squills, and paregoric, equal parts.

Go home, you foolish boy, and get some paregoric and let Adolphus take off the prize.

And neither is paregoric to be administered wholesale for colic.

It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.

It smells as if someone had been drinking quarts of paregoric!

Word Value for paregorics
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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