absinthian

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1. Of the nature of wormwood.

   Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets

   1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems

2. Of or pertaining to absinthe.

   … in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, …

   (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995)

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   The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]

   1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70

   The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.

   1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16

   The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.

   1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227