Definition of "opium-habit" [opium-habit]

• The habitual use of opium or morphine as a stimulant. See morphiomania. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Capsicum, in the five grain doses earlier mentioned, may often be relied on to counteract the tendency to frightful dreams arising from the exquisitely irritable state of the stomach in which the opium-habit leaves its victims."
• "As we have seen, the subject of dreams had always had a fascination for him, of a kind not unconnected perhaps with the opium-habit."
• "If its inspiration was in some degree due to opium, we know from the example of S.T. Coleridge that the opium-habit is not favourable to certainty of memory or the accurate presentation of facts."