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Lubric
LU'BRIC
,Adj.
1.
Having a smooth surface; slippery; as a lubric throat.2.
Wavering; unsteady; as the lubric waves of state.3.
Lascivious; wanton; lewd.This lubric and adulterate age.
[This word is now little used.]
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lubric
lubric
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lubric (comparative more lubric, superlative most lubric)
- (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
- 1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57,
- No eel was ever more lubric.
- 1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57,
- (obsolete) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
- 17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312,
- O wretched we! why were we hurried down / This lubric and adulterate age, / (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own) / To increase the steaming ordures of the stage?
- 1761, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, June 6th 1678—July 30th 1712, Volume II, page 147,
- His own letter ſent down with the bill canvels it; and Waterton, his own brother, depones on the veriſimilitude of his ſubſcription: and there can be nothing more lubric and conjectural, than to find a writ falſe on the mathematical points of the longitudes and angles of letters and ſubſcriptions […] .
- 1773, William Creech (editor), The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volumes 1-2, page 141,
- Why does he corrupt his fellow-citizens by treating the moſt lubric and wanton of all ſubjects, and reviving the idea of Lucian's Amores?
- 17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312,