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opiate
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opiate
1. any of various narcotic drugs, such as morphine and heroin, that act on opioid receptors
2. any other narcotic or sedative drug
3. containing or consisting of opium
opiate [′ō·pē·ət]
(pharmacology)
A sleep-inducing drug.
Any narcotic.
An opium preparation.
Any tranquilizing agent.
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Yet one must confess - tragic as it may be and strange as it may sound - that this shortening of breath, this opiating of the Jewish life-pulse, has greatly helped the Jews to withstand and to endure the coal-black and blood-red times of the Inquisition, the massacres, and the like periods of woe that no other nation could survive.
Irving Howe and secular Jewishness: an elegy by Alexander, Edward / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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