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plural philtres
Alternative spelling of philter (“kind of potion”) quotations examples
[…] Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!
1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus, translation of original by Tibullus
What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?
1909, Charles Baudelaire, “The Irreparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Poems and Baudelaire Flowers
Old witches in the cities and country-side throve upon the sale of death spells and love philtres. They also made a trade of abortificants, and frequently practised the whiles of the procuress.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 65
third-person singular simple present philtres, present participle philtring, simple past and past participle philtred
Alternative spelling of philter examples