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lubric en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin lūbricus.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
   • No eel was ever more lubric. 1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57:
2. (obsolete) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
   • 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? 1773, William Creech, editor, The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, volumes 1-2, page 141:
   • 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[…]. 1761, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, June 6th 1678—July 30th 1712, volume II, page 147:
   • 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?

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