opiaten.adj.

Brit.

/ˈəʊpɪət/, U.S.

/ˈoʊpiᵻt/

Forms: late Middle English– opiate, 1500s opyate, 1500s–1700s opiat, 1600s oppiate.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French opiate; Latin opiatum, opiatus.

Etymology: As noun < Middle French opiate (1336; also in 15th cent. as opyate ), Middle French, French opiat (1574 in sense A. 1b) and its etymon post-classical Latin opiatum drug derived from opium (a1250, 1622 in British sources) < classical Latin opium opium n. + -ātum -ate suffix¹. As adjective < post-classical Latin opiatus soporific (10th cent.; 1620 in a British source) < classical Latin opium opium n. + -ātus -ate suffix².

A. n.

1. Medicine and Pharmacology.

a. Originally: any medicinal preparation containing opium, used chiefly to induce sleep or relieve pain. Later: spec. any drug derived from opium, esp. morphine and codeine; any of a group of narcotic drugs structurally related to morphine or having physiological effects similar to those of morphine (cf. opioid n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s)

opiate?a1425

dope1886

hop1887

Peter1899

quill1916

junk1921

narcotic1926

stuff1929

mojo1935

sugar1935

gear1954

narco1954

sauce1975

opie1992

Scooby Snack1996

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > narcotic

narcoticc1385

opiec1385

opiate?a1425

dormitary1547

mandragora1605

dormitive1619

nepenthe1728

opiatic1847

sleep-stuff1880

chemical1954

fentanyl1963

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > opium > drug similar to opium

opiate?a1425

opioid1955

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > addictive drug

opiate1929

opiate1948

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 171^v Solaced or conforted with croco or mirra storacus, as castorio, as in philoneo & in opiatez [L. filonio et opiatis] & suppositoriez.

1526 Grete Herball xxix. sig. Bvi^v/1 Agaynst payne of the heed called mygreyne or cephale gyve some hote opiate.

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. B8^v Drink Iulepe, or opiate, conuenient with motione, frictione, & sic thingis as bringis furthe all contagione maist learnitly prescryuit.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 359 More comforting Then all your Opiates, Iulebes, Apozemes.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 195 Instances..of such who with Opiates slept to Death.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 4 A Pillow, which, like Opiates ill-prepar'd, Intoxicates, but not composes.

1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 435 For a few hours, after he had taken the opiate, he lay composed.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 150 Compelled to sleep in spite of racking bodily pains, by the administration of a strong opiate.

1887 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. ii The old woman took her opiate every night.

1918 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 29 48 Why..are opiates constantly administered, which dull pain at the price of weakening the final resistance?

1948 Arch. Internal Med. 82 387 These men were..again offered the choice of either an opiate or methadon.

1961 Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therapeutics 133 371/1 Codeine accounts for at least 80% of the natural opiates sold on prescription.

1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xiii. 242 In 1973 evidence was presented demonstrating the existence of an opiate receptor in the brain.

1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) vii. 92 The natural opiate eventually became known as ‘endorphin,’ from the Greek for ‘end plus morphine,’ or ‘morphine-ended’.

1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 June 3/6 Traces of opiates had been found in Mr Schwab's body, according to unnamed sources. Opiate is a general classification of drugs derived from the opium poppy.

2000 Police Feb. 31/3 It blocks the effect of all opiates, not just heroin and methadone but a simple drug like codeine.

2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 June 24/2 Lost in the chaotic exchange..is the small vial of heroin. It contains a milligram of opiate in fine powder form.

†b. An electuary (soft paste) containing abrasive powders, used as a dentifrice. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > syrup or linctus > [noun] > specific

syrupa1400

sapec1440

opiate1685

sapa1725

hive-syrup1839

1685 C. Allen Operator for Teeth 8 I have to that effect a very excellent Dentifrice..: (tho' in a considerable measure) this is the same that in my Bills..I call an Opiat.

1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1613 I insist therefore that you wash your teeth the first thing that you do every morning... Mouton, whom I desire you will send for upon your arrival at Paris, will give you an opiate.

1770 T. Berdmore Treat. Disorders & Deformities Teeth & Gums (new ed.) vi. 227 These of the former sort, whether sold under the name of a powder, elecutuary, or opiate,..are always composed of pumice-stone, emery, or some other cutting powder.

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon s.v Opiate The French term is now used to designate a soft paste made by mixing powders for internal use, or for dentifrices, to the consistence of a soft by means of syrup or honey.]

c. Any psychoactive drug deemed to have an addictive potential similar to that of morphine or cocaine; cf. narcotic n. 2. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > addictive drug

opiate1929

opiate1948

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) xii. 372 There are certain useful medicinal plants that come under the Abuse of Opiates Ordinances, and the cultivation and sale is carried on only under licence or under official control; e.g. ‘Cannabis Indica’ (Cannabis sativa, Linn.).

1960 Federal Reg. (U.S.) 5 Aug. 7351/2 The word ‘opiate’..shall mean any drug..to have an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine.

2. figurative.

a. Something that soothes or dulls the senses or causes drowsiness or inaction. Cf. opium n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > causing > one who or that which

torpedoa1593

opium1608

opiate1641

reposera1648

sedative1785

torporific1840

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 26 If men should ever bee thumming the drone of one plaine Song, it would bee a dull Opiat to the most wakefull attention.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 171. ⁋3 [He] began to lull my conscience with the opiates of irreligion.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 52 Mrs. Transome..found the opiate for her discontent in the exertion of her will about smaller things.

1927 C. Connolly Let. 4 Mar. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 276 I find covering ground rather an opiate.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 24 There's no more beautiful feeling than the opiate of unguarded sleep on a sunny boat deck.

1960 D. Eisenhower in W. Safire New Lang. Politics (1968) 309/1 Hundreds of millions behind the Iron Curtain are daily drilled in the slogan: ‘There is no God, and religion is an opiate’.

1976 C. Dexter Last seen Wearing xxi. 158 The heady, heavy opiate of the gambling game.

2000 Red Herring May 226/2 Broadband is the opiate in the fast-paced world of information technology.

b. the opiate of the people: = the opium of the people at opium n. 2b. Also the opiate of the masses, etc.

ΚΠ

1920 Times 26 Nov. 13/5 A tablet has now been inserted in the wall [of the sacred gateway of the Red Square in Moscow] engraved with the inscription ‘Religion is the opiate of the people’.

1921 A. R. Williams Through Russ. Revol. xi. 167 The Czar had used the priests of the Greek Orthodox Church as his spiritual police making ‘Religion the opiate of the people’.

1964 D. C. Hague in J. T. Dunlop Theory of Wage Determination 424 Professor Kerr speculated whether the trade union movement did not, after a time, become the opiate of the people?

1993 Spy (N.Y.) June 5/2 Barney is a lardy-ass, mascot-upholstered PBS star,..opiate of the toddler masses and mental root canal of their parents.

2003 Sunday People (Nexis) 14 Dec. 36 Celebrity has replaced religion as the opiate of the people.

B. adj.

1. Originally: made with or containing opium; inducing sleep or sedation; narcotic. Later: of the nature of an opiate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > causing or inducing sleep

sleepingc1369

sleepy1398

lullingc1440

somnolentc1475

sleepery1513

sleeprife1513

narcotic1526

opiate1543

breed-sleep1582

somnoriferous1583

drowsy1590

dormitive1593

soporiferous1601

somniferous1602

sleep-bringing1605

dormitary1609

hypnotic1625

dormitory1631

papaverous1646

dormant1654

hypnotical1657

somnifyinga1661

sleepifying1662

slumberous1667

soporific1690

somnific1721

somniculous1820

somnorific1865

soporous1866

drowsing1881

narcoleptic1984

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [adjective] > opiate

opiate1543

opiatic1678

poppean1791

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [adjective] > sedative, narcotic, or hypnotic

stupefactive?a1425

sedativec1425

narcotic1526

opiate1543

narcotical1587

soporiferous1601

hypnotic1625

soporative1629

pacative1664

opiative1674

opiatic1678

thebaic1746

soporific1775

narcotico-acrid1815

depressant1887

opiumy1891

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. viii. f. 215^v/2 Opiate medicines swage payn, howbeit it is onely after the maner of palliation.

1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 800 They gave Dionysius the elder..a strong Opiat-drink to cast him in a sleep.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §903 And for the particular ingredients..it is like they are opiate, and soporiferous.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6167 How and Why some Medicins are Vomitive, some Purgative, others Sudorifique, others Diuretique, some Alterative, some Cordial, some Opiate.

1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 38 At night, being faint and fatigued with pain and want of rest, he had an opiate and cordial julap.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 15 An opiate draught which the old Highlander had administered, from some decoction of herbs in his pharmacopeia.

1931 Isis 15 348 Virginia physicians were equipped with..opiate and purging pills.

1988 R. Lefever How to combat Alcoholism & Addiction (BNC) 12 Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs.

1997 Independent 2 July 19/6 There is a distinct place for the use of opiate analgesics.

2. figurative. That soothes or dulls the senses; causing drowsiness or inaction.

ΚΠ

a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 321 Have a little opiate divinity ministered to our souls.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 133 Charm'd with Arcadian Pipe, the Pastoral Reed Of Hermes, or his opiate Rod.

1718 T. Purney Chevalier de St. George vi. 46 The Chevalier tow'rd opiate Pillow trod, And courted Slumber... His Limbs now soft dissolve in Morpheus' Arms.

1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 56 Even in France the squabbles of the parliament and clergy are under the same opiate influence.

1825 T. Hood Addr. to Sylvanus Urban in Odes & Addr. Great People 70 Confessions dozing from an opiate pen.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 282 Morsels..of meal, and of honeyed opiate cakes.

1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 541/1 She finally delivers the young, having also managed to administer an opiate stretch of story telling.

1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. v. 183 The ‘poetry’ of previous revolutions, the symbologies by which they lived themselves, was opiate and inauthentic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

opiatev.

Brit.

/ˈəʊpɪeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈoʊpieɪt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s oppiate, 1600s– opiate.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: opium n., -ate suffix³.

Etymology: < opium n. + -ate suffix³, in early use after Italian oppiare (14th cent.: see quot. 1611 at sense 1).

†1. transitive. To sedate or put to sleep by means of opium. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] > with opium

opiate1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dialibano, a Kinde of medicament, medicine or sirup to oppiate one to sleepe, or to dead griefe.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Oppiare To oppiate, to stupefie the senses.

1668 in 7th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1879) 486/2 He opiated the mother and daughter and then ravished the daughter.

1717 E. Fenton Poems 209 Tho' no lethargic fumes the brain invest, And opiate all her active pow'rs to rest.

a1842 W. E. Channing Thoughts (1859) 310 It is very easy for a dying man to be opiated by the doctor.

2. transitive. figurative. To make dull or numb; to stupefy (with or by).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions

stupefy?a1425

dullc1440

benumbc1485

slumber?1533

extinguish1540

extinct1542

numb1561

damp1570

hebetate1574

daunt1581

frostbite1593

hebete1597

blunt1600

unedgea1625

engross1626

astonish1635

consopite1647

bate1649

opiate1650

blura1653

hebescate1657

torpefy1808

dozena1810

dullify1838

hebetize1845

chloroform1849

narcotize1852

sodden1863

vastate1892

1650 T. Waring Brief Narration Execrable Rebellion & Butcherie Ireland 48 Even his own Devines who could so dextrously Incrustate and opiate his conscience, themselves be Judges, whether his concurrences with such savage fiends, [etc.]..were not many provocations of the Divine vengeance.

1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 190 Happy in his natural imbecility, which seemed to opiate all his afflictions.

1800 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 72 One who can let his feelings remain awake, and opiate his reason.

1871 S. Powers Muskingum Legends 219 Has my colleague been opiated with musk and geranium?

1971 New Society 1 July 8/2 Its function is the same and so is that of the Salvation Army—opiating the masses.

1988 R. Coles Harvard Diary 18 She is not opiated with resignation, indifferent to the things of the world.

2002 Independent (Nexis) 18 May (Sports section) 7 We were opiated by success but we're wide awake now.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	opiate
释义	opiaten.adj. Brit. /ˈəʊpɪət/, U.S. /ˈoʊpiᵻt/ Forms: late Middle English– opiate, 1500s opyate, 1500s–1700s opiat, 1600s oppiate. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French opiate; Latin opiatum, opiatus. Etymology: As noun < Middle French opiate (1336; also in 15th cent. as opyate ), Middle French, French opiat (1574 in sense A. 1b) and its etymon post-classical Latin opiatum drug derived from opium (a1250, 1622 in British sources) < classical Latin opium opium n. + -ātum -ate suffix¹. As adjective < post-classical Latin opiatus soporific (10th cent.; 1620 in a British source) < classical Latin opium opium n. + -ātus -ate suffix². A. n. 1. Medicine and Pharmacology. a. Originally: any medicinal preparation containing opium, used chiefly to induce sleep or relieve pain. Later: spec. any drug derived from opium, esp. morphine and codeine; any of a group of narcotic drugs structurally related to morphine or having physiological effects similar to those of morphine (cf. opioid n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) opiate?a1425 dope1886 hop1887 Peter1899 quill1916 junk1921 narcotic1926 stuff1929 mojo1935 sugar1935 gear1954 narco1954 sauce1975 opie1992 Scooby Snack1996 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > narcotic narcoticc1385 opiec1385 opiate?a1425 dormitary1547 mandragora1605 dormitive1619 nepenthe1728 opiatic1847 sleep-stuff1880 chemical1954 fentanyl1963 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > opium > drug similar to opium opiate?a1425 opioid1955 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > addictive drug opiate1929 opiate1948 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 171^v Solaced or conforted with croco or mirra storacus, as castorio, as in philoneo & in opiatez [L. filonio et opiatis] & suppositoriez. 1526 Grete Herball xxix. sig. Bvi^v/1 Agaynst payne of the heed called mygreyne or cephale gyve some hote opiate. 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. B8^v Drink Iulepe, or opiate, conuenient with motione, frictione, & sic thingis as bringis furthe all contagione maist learnitly prescryuit. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 359 More comforting Then all your Opiates, Iulebes, Apozemes. View more context for this quotation 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 195 Instances..of such who with Opiates slept to Death. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 4 A Pillow, which, like Opiates ill-prepar'd, Intoxicates, but not composes. 1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 435 For a few hours, after he had taken the opiate, he lay composed. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 150 Compelled to sleep in spite of racking bodily pains, by the administration of a strong opiate. 1887 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. ii The old woman took her opiate every night. 1918 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 29 48 Why..are opiates constantly administered, which dull pain at the price of weakening the final resistance? 1948 Arch. Internal Med. 82 387 These men were..again offered the choice of either an opiate or methadon. 1961 Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therapeutics 133 371/1 Codeine accounts for at least 80% of the natural opiates sold on prescription. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xiii. 242 In 1973 evidence was presented demonstrating the existence of an opiate receptor in the brain. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) vii. 92 The natural opiate eventually became known as ‘endorphin,’ from the Greek for ‘end plus morphine,’ or ‘morphine-ended’. 1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 June 3/6 Traces of opiates had been found in Mr Schwab's body, according to unnamed sources. Opiate is a general classification of drugs derived from the opium poppy. 2000 Police Feb. 31/3 It blocks the effect of all opiates, not just heroin and methadone but a simple drug like codeine. 2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 June 24/2 Lost in the chaotic exchange..is the small vial of heroin. It contains a milligram of opiate in fine powder form. †b. An electuary (soft paste) containing abrasive powders, used as a dentifrice. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > syrup or linctus > [noun] > specific syrupa1400 sapec1440 opiate1685 sapa1725 hive-syrup1839 1685 C. Allen Operator for Teeth 8 I have to that effect a very excellent Dentifrice..: (tho' in a considerable measure) this is the same that in my Bills..I call an Opiat. 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1613 I insist therefore that you wash your teeth the first thing that you do every morning... Mouton, whom I desire you will send for upon your arrival at Paris, will give you an opiate. 1770 T. Berdmore Treat. Disorders & Deformities Teeth & Gums (new ed.) vi. 227 These of the former sort, whether sold under the name of a powder, elecutuary, or opiate,..are always composed of pumice-stone, emery, or some other cutting powder. 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon s.v Opiate The French term is now used to designate a soft paste made by mixing powders for internal use, or for dentifrices, to the consistence of a soft by means of syrup or honey.] c. Any psychoactive drug deemed to have an addictive potential similar to that of morphine or cocaine; cf. narcotic n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > addictive drug opiate1929 opiate1948 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) xii. 372 There are certain useful medicinal plants that come under the Abuse of Opiates Ordinances, and the cultivation and sale is carried on only under licence or under official control; e.g. ‘Cannabis Indica’ (Cannabis sativa, Linn.). 1960 Federal Reg. (U.S.) 5 Aug. 7351/2 The word ‘opiate’..shall mean any drug..to have an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine. 2. figurative. a. Something that soothes or dulls the senses or causes drowsiness or inaction. Cf. opium n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > causing > one who or that which torpedoa1593 opium1608 opiate1641 reposera1648 sedative1785 torporific1840 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 26 If men should ever bee thumming the drone of one plaine Song, it would bee a dull Opiat to the most wakefull attention. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 171. ⁋3 [He] began to lull my conscience with the opiates of irreligion. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 52 Mrs. Transome..found the opiate for her discontent in the exertion of her will about smaller things. 1927 C. Connolly Let. 4 Mar. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 276 I find covering ground rather an opiate. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 24 There's no more beautiful feeling than the opiate of unguarded sleep on a sunny boat deck. 1960 D. Eisenhower in W. Safire New Lang. Politics (1968) 309/1 Hundreds of millions behind the Iron Curtain are daily drilled in the slogan: ‘There is no God, and religion is an opiate’. 1976 C. Dexter Last seen Wearing xxi. 158 The heady, heavy opiate of the gambling game. 2000 Red Herring May 226/2 Broadband is the opiate in the fast-paced world of information technology. b. the opiate of the people: = the opium of the people at opium n. 2b. Also the opiate of the masses, etc. ΚΠ 1920 Times 26 Nov. 13/5 A tablet has now been inserted in the wall [of the sacred gateway of the Red Square in Moscow] engraved with the inscription ‘Religion is the opiate of the people’. 1921 A. R. Williams Through Russ. Revol. xi. 167 The Czar had used the priests of the Greek Orthodox Church as his spiritual police making ‘Religion the opiate of the people’. 1964 D. C. Hague in J. T. Dunlop Theory of Wage Determination 424 Professor Kerr speculated whether the trade union movement did not, after a time, become the opiate of the people? 1993 Spy (N.Y.) June 5/2 Barney is a lardy-ass, mascot-upholstered PBS star,..opiate of the toddler masses and mental root canal of their parents. 2003 Sunday People (Nexis) 14 Dec. 36 Celebrity has replaced religion as the opiate of the people. B. adj. 1. Originally: made with or containing opium; inducing sleep or sedation; narcotic. Later: of the nature of an opiate. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > causing or inducing sleep sleepingc1369 sleepy1398 lullingc1440 somnolentc1475 sleepery1513 sleeprife1513 narcotic1526 opiate1543 breed-sleep1582 somnoriferous1583 drowsy1590 dormitive1593 soporiferous1601 somniferous1602 sleep-bringing1605 dormitary1609 hypnotic1625 dormitory1631 papaverous1646 dormant1654 hypnotical1657 somnifyinga1661 sleepifying1662 slumberous1667 soporific1690 somnific1721 somniculous1820 somnorific1865 soporous1866 drowsing1881 narcoleptic1984 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [adjective] > opiate opiate1543 opiatic1678 poppean1791 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [adjective] > sedative, narcotic, or hypnotic stupefactive?a1425 sedativec1425 narcotic1526 opiate1543 narcotical1587 soporiferous1601 hypnotic1625 soporative1629 pacative1664 opiative1674 opiatic1678 thebaic1746 soporific1775 narcotico-acrid1815 depressant1887 opiumy1891 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. viii. f. 215^v/2 Opiate medicines swage payn, howbeit it is onely after the maner of palliation. 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 800 They gave Dionysius the elder..a strong Opiat-drink to cast him in a sleep. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §903 And for the particular ingredients..it is like they are opiate, and soporiferous. 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6167 How and Why some Medicins are Vomitive, some Purgative, others Sudorifique, others Diuretique, some Alterative, some Cordial, some Opiate. 1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 38 At night, being faint and fatigued with pain and want of rest, he had an opiate and cordial julap. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 15 An opiate draught which the old Highlander had administered, from some decoction of herbs in his pharmacopeia. View more context for this quotation 1931 Isis 15 348 Virginia physicians were equipped with..opiate and purging pills. 1988 R. Lefever How to combat Alcoholism & Addiction (BNC) 12 Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs. 1997 Independent 2 July 19/6 There is a distinct place for the use of opiate analgesics. 2. figurative. That soothes or dulls the senses; causing drowsiness or inaction. ΚΠ a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 321 Have a little opiate divinity ministered to our souls. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 133 Charm'd with Arcadian Pipe, the Pastoral Reed Of Hermes, or his opiate Rod. View more context for this quotation 1718 T. Purney Chevalier de St. George vi. 46 The Chevalier tow'rd opiate Pillow trod, And courted Slumber... His Limbs now soft dissolve in Morpheus' Arms. 1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 56 Even in France the squabbles of the parliament and clergy are under the same opiate influence. 1825 T. Hood Addr. to Sylvanus Urban in Odes & Addr. Great People 70 Confessions dozing from an opiate pen. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 282 Morsels..of meal, and of honeyed opiate cakes. 1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 541/1 She finally delivers the young, having also managed to administer an opiate stretch of story telling. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. v. 183 The ‘poetry’ of previous revolutions, the symbologies by which they lived themselves, was opiate and inauthentic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). opiatev. Brit. /ˈəʊpɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˈoʊpieɪt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s oppiate, 1600s– opiate. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: opium n., -ate suffix³. Etymology: < opium n. + -ate suffix³, in early use after Italian oppiare (14th cent.: see quot. 1611 at sense 1). †1. transitive. To sedate or put to sleep by means of opium. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] > with opium opiate1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dialibano, a Kinde of medicament, medicine or sirup to oppiate one to sleepe, or to dead griefe. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Oppiare To oppiate, to stupefie the senses. 1668 in 7th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1879) 486/2 He opiated the mother and daughter and then ravished the daughter. 1717 E. Fenton Poems 209 Tho' no lethargic fumes the brain invest, And opiate all her active pow'rs to rest. a1842 W. E. Channing Thoughts (1859) 310 It is very easy for a dying man to be opiated by the doctor. 2. transitive. figurative. To make dull or numb; to stupefy (with or by). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions stupefy?a1425 dullc1440 benumbc1485 slumber?1533 extinguish1540 extinct1542 numb1561 damp1570 hebetate1574 daunt1581 frostbite1593 hebete1597 blunt1600 unedgea1625 engross1626 astonish1635 consopite1647 bate1649 opiate1650 blura1653 hebescate1657 torpefy1808 dozena1810 dullify1838 hebetize1845 chloroform1849 narcotize1852 sodden1863 vastate1892 1650 T. Waring Brief Narration Execrable Rebellion & Butcherie Ireland 48 Even his own Devines who could so dextrously Incrustate and opiate his conscience, themselves be Judges, whether his concurrences with such savage fiends, [etc.]..were not many provocations of the Divine vengeance. 1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 190 Happy in his natural imbecility, which seemed to opiate all his afflictions. 1800 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 72 One who can let his feelings remain awake, and opiate his reason. 1871 S. Powers Muskingum Legends 219 Has my colleague been opiated with musk and geranium? 1971 New Society 1 July 8/2 Its function is the same and so is that of the Salvation Army—opiating the masses. 1988 R. Coles Harvard Diary 18 She is not opiated with resignation, indifferent to the things of the world. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 18 May (Sports section) 7 We were opiated by success but we're wide awake now. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?a1425v.1598
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