morphia

See also: -morphia

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fiə

Noun

morphia (countable and uncountable, plural morphias)

1. Synonym of morphine
   • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIV, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:

     The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363:

     “Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”

Anagrams

• amorphi