lubric

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin lubricus.

Adjective

lubric (comparative more lubric, superlative most lubric)

  1. (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
    • 1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57:
      No eel was ever more lubric.
  2. (obsolete) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
    • 17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312,
      O wretched we! why were we hurried down / This lubric and adulterate age, / (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own) / To increase the steaming ordures of the stage?
    • 1761, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, June 6th 1678—July 30th 1712, volume II, page 147:
      His own letter ſent down with the bill canvels it; and Waterton, his own brother, depones on the veriſimilitude of his ſubſcription: and there can be nothing more lubric and conjectural, than to find a writ falſe on the mathematical points of the longitudes and angles of letters and ſubſcriptions […] .
    • 1773, William Creech, editor, The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, volumes 1-2, page 141:
      Why does he corrupt his fellow-citizens by treating the moſt lubric and wanton of all ſubjects, and reviving the idea of Lucian's Amores?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lubric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lubrique, from Latin lubricus.

Adjective

lubric m or n (feminine singular lubrică, masculine plural lubrici, feminine and neuter plural lubrice)

  1. lustful

Declension
Declension of lubric
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite lubric lubrică lubrici lubrice
definite lubricul lubrica lubricii lubricele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite lubric lubrice lubrici lubrice
definite lubricului lubricei lubricilor lubricelor
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