lubric

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10
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6

Definition of lubric

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Having a smooth surface; slippery.
    “No eel was ever more lubric.”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Having a smooth surface; slippery.
    “No eel was ever more lubric.”
  2. (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?”
    “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[…].”
    “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?”

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Etymology

From Latin lūbricus.

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