What does "paregoric" mean?
Paregoric: Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
Additional senses
- 2.A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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