How To Use Philter In A Sentence
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Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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As for herbs and philters, I could never skill of them, The sole philter that ever I used was kissing and embracing, by which alone I made men rave like beasts stupefied, and compelled them to worship me like an idol.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Tandlerus and some authors make a doubt, whether love and hatred may be compelled by philters or characters; Cardan and Marbodius, by precious stones and amulets; astrologers by election of times, &c. as [4543] I shall elsewhere discuss.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Some are so caused by philters, wandering in the sun, biting of a mad dog, a blow on the head, stinging with that kind of spider called tarantula, an ordinary thing if we may believe Skeuck. l.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There's something purely foolish about attending any large gathering of men and women without benefit of some kind of philter or magic dust to blind you and weaken your critical faculties.
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And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread.
Chapter 11
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Lamiis, for witches to take upon them the making of these philters, [5224] to force men and women to love and hate whom they will, to cause tempests, diseases, &c., by charms, spells, characters, knots. — [5225] hic Thessala vendit Philtra.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Cleopatra's sweet speeches, philters, beauty, pleasing tires: for when she sailed along the river Cydnus, with such incredible pomp in a gilded ship, herself dressed like Venus, her maids like the
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Charles the Great enforced to love basely by a philter
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Aphonsi, hath a story of one Stephan, a Neapolitan knight, that by a philter was forced to run mad for love.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Some are so caused by philters, wandering in the sun, biting of a mad dog, a blow on the head, stinging with that kind of spider called tarantula, an ordinary thing if we may believe Skeuck. l.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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These odors of the hinano and tiare were philters worthy of the beautiful Tahitian girls, with their sinuous, golden bodies so sensualized, so passionate, and so free.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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The Greeks and Romans, who had so many philters wherewith to make themselves beloved, had others to cure love; they employed herbs and roots.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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When all other engines fail, that they can proceed no farther of themselves, their last refuge is to fly to bawds, panders, magical philters, and receipts; rather than fail, to the devil himself.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The last battering engines are philters, amulets, spells, charms, images, and such unlawful means: if they cannot prevail of themselves by the help of bawds, panders, and their adherents, they will fly for succour to the devil himself.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Laurence, [2994] prostibulum faeminae Messalina the empress, that by philters, and such kind of lascivious meats, use all means to [2995] enable themselves: and brag of it in the end, confodi multas enim, occidi vero paucas per ventrem vidisti, as that
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
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There's something purely foolish about attending any large gathering of men and women without benefit of some kind of philter or magic dust to blind you and weaken your critical faculties.
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The human spiritus can be affected by material things like incenses, collyries, unguents, philters, and other substances used to cause magical effects.
Loss of Faith
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Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
