Opium vs Thebaic - What's the difference?
opium | thebaic |
(uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
(countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -
Theban; Of or pertaining to Thebes, especially in the context of the scriptures.
*1957', Heinrich Boll, L. Vennewitz (tr.) - priests, monks, missionaries who, by way of this strange detour via Ireland, brought the spirit of ' Thebaic ascetisism to Europe
Of or pertaining to opium.
*1791', William Lewis, ''The Edinburgh New Dispensatory'' - '''''Thebaic extract, half a dram.