nouna medicine containing opium, benzoic acid, camphor (English paregoric) or ammonia (Scottish paregoric), and anise oil, formerly widely used to relieve diarrhoea and coughing in children
Word origin
C17 (meaning: relieving pain): via Late Latin from Greek
parēgorikos soothing, from
parēgoros relating to soothing speech, from
para-1 (beside, alongside of) +
-ēgor-, from
agoreuein to speak in assembly, from
agora assembly