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paregorick

paregorick is the obsolete form of paregoric.

Meaning of paregoric

Noun

paregoric (countable and uncountable, plural paregorics)

  1. A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium.
    • They bought paregoric in the drug store and drank it. They formed a drugged and stupefied line against the side of the drug store building. Studs was so helpless that Red Kelly had to take him home.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan

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Forms of paregorick

pluralparegoricks

Questions about paregorick

What is paregorick the obsolete form of?
Paregorick is the obsolete form of paregoric.

Words near paregorick in the dictionary

  1. parefuningoside
  2. paregmena
  3. paregmenon
  4. paregmenons
  5. paregoric
  6. paregorick
  7. paregoricks
  8. paregorics
  9. pareiasaur
  10. pareiasaurian
  11. pareiasaurians

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