lubric

[ loo-brik ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. lubricous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lubric¹

1480–90; < Latin lūbricus slippery, smooth, Medieval Latin: lewd

Example Sentences

Dream drunk with rum, whose tropic-heated spices Ferment into a scented wine that joins Thy subtle spirit in voluptuous vices With negro women whose smooth flesh entices Thy lubric hand to their anointed loins.

From Project Gutenberg

So a courtier, having planned from his youth his career of ambition, struggles up the ladder, lubric and precipitous, to the top—to the very consummation of his hopes, and then falls back into the rubbish from which he has issued; and they who envied his fortune, now rejoice in his fall.

From Project Gutenberg

What of those sensuous waltzes, those lubric bits of schramm-musik which have come from Vienna?

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Force, fraud, cunning, and all lubric arts and artifices, even the beguilements of rhetoric, found no favor with him, as modes of warfare or means of victory.

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For whiche cause I refused the Nenuphar, and reiected the Dracuncle for his heate, and accepted of the Amella, whiche shee had cleane washed, by meanes whereof, within a verye short space, I founde my venerious Lubric and incensing spurre of desire to leaue of, and my intemperate luste was cleane gone.

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