laudanum• Poisoning by laudanum, or other opium derivatives, is a comparatively gradualprocess.• He began to drinklaudanum as well.• He had mixedlaudanum with his wine, but even that had not helped.• Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan after hearing it in a sleep stimulated by the opiatelaudanum.• He put laudanum in his brandy which helped.• And so Branwell spent more and more time drinking, and taking laudanum, and walkingalone on the moors.• The laudanumbottle was brought out.• It was as though her old mistress were drunk, or light-headed with laudanum, so intense was her delight.
Originlaudanum
(1500-1600)Modern Latin probably from Medieval Latinlapdanum“juice obtained from a type of plant”