mandragorite

English

Etymology

From mandragora +‎ -ite.

Noun

mandragorite (plural mandragorites)

  1. (archaic) One who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug
    • 1879 August 16, Littell's Living Age, page 427, column 2:
      There were those who drank of it for taste or pleasure; and who were spoken of as "mandragorites," as we might speak of alcoholics or chloralists. They passed into the land of sleep and dream, and waking up in scare and alarm were the screaming mandrakes of an ancient civilization.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 145:
      A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.

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