Electuary

Maijûn, a kind of electuary, in which both men and women indulge to excess. ❋ John Davenport (1833)

Take of my electuary with a spoon after supping, and wash it down with a sherbet made of rose conserve; but first sup off mutton and house pigeon plentifully seasoned and hotly spiced. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She did his bidding and, when she served up the meats, he ate the evening meal, after which he called for the bowl and ate of the electuary. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Very weakly, sir, since I took the electuary,” answered the patient; “it neighboured ill with the two spoonfuls of pease-porridge and the kirnmilk.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

The European equivalent, “Venice treacle,” (Theriaca Andromachi) is an electuary containing many elements. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now there was in the bazar a man who was Deputy Syndic of the brokers and was given to the use of opium and electuary and green hashish. 28 He was called Shaykh Mohammed Samsam and being poor he used to wish Shams al-Din good morrow every day. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Having cut some bulbs or squill, boil in water, and when well boiled, throw this away, and having poured in more water, boil until it appear to the touch soft and well-boiled; then triturate finely and mix roasted cumin, and white sesames, and young almonds pounded in honey, form into an electuary and give; and afterwards sweet wine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fernelius and others; diasena, diapolypodium, diacassia, diacatholicon, Wecker's electuary de Epithymo, Ptolemy's hierologadium, of which divers receipts are daily made. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He invented an electuary for the cure of fluxes, and in 1730, in The Danger of ❋ Unknown (2003)

Trikatu is another traditional Ayurvedic electuary commonly made and used by people living near water. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Had he at the same time given me a tea-spoon, it would not have been so improper; for the poison might have been made up as a lenitive electuary. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thessala forthwith runs and takes ointment and plaster and an electuary that she had made, and has joined company with John. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (N/A)

Loss of Memory or Forgetfulness certainly cured by a grateful electuary, peculiarly adapted for that end. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)

They are useful for costive habits, and may be made into an electuary; but, when unripe, Plums provoke choleraic diarrhoea. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

As early as 1602 a magic electuary, invented by one "Doctor Cogbourne, famous for fluxes," was by direction of the Navy Commissioners supplied for his use in the West ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Elect [uarium] Asthmatic [um] (Asthmatic electuary) 1 lb. 1 oz. ❋ George B. Griffenhagen (N/A)

A little consideration will convince any one that the electuary was most likely to achieve the purpose for which it was recommended. ❋ Unknown (1909)

And this was the "judge's" "new and superior way of preparing coffee" as found in his prescription for making electuary of cophy: ❋ Unknown (1909)

The electuary of coffee was to be taken by the patient before and after using the instrument, which the "judge" called his _Provang_. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"With a blood-letting and an electuary, I will warrant him sound within a month." ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)