Definition of "electuary" [e•lec•tu•a•ry]

• A drug mixed with sugar and water or honey into a pasty mass suitable for oral administration. (noun)

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• "Maijûn, a kind of electuary, in which both men and women indulge to excess."
• "“Very weakly, sir, since I took the electuary,” answered the patient; “it neighboured ill with the two spoonfuls of pease-porridge and the kirnmilk.”"
• "Now there was in the bazar a man who was Deputy Syndic of the brokers and was given to the use of opium and electuary and green hashish. 28 He was called Shaykh Mohammed Samsam and being poor he used to wish Shams al-Din good morrow every day."