nepenthe

English - Turkish

Definition of nepenthe in English Turkish dictionary: (isim) acı ve üzüntüyü yok eden ilaç (yunan); ıstırabı yok eden herhangi bir şey; {i} acı ve üzüntüyü yok eden ilaç (yunan); eski Yunanlılarca acı ve üzüntüyü unutturduğu farzolunan bir ilâç; acı ve üzüntüyü yok eden ilaç

English - English

Definition of nepenthe in English English dictionary: A drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow; nepenthes
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!.; {n} a drug that can expel all pain or care; A potion which causes one to forget their troubles; A drug described in Homers Odyssey that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow; Anything which effects the welcome forgetfulness of such sorrow; {i} legendary drug that caused one to forget his troubles or sorrow; anything which induces a soothing sense of forgetfulness (of pain or troubles); Hence, anything soothing and comforting; A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh; (3 syl ) or Nepenthes, a drug to drive away care and superinduce love Polydamna, wife of Thonis (or Thone, 1 syl ), King of Egypt, gave nepenthe to Helen (daughter of Jove and Leda) Homer speaks of a magic potion called nepenthe, which made persons forget their woes (Odyssey, iv 228 ) “That nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave the Jove-born Helena ” Milton: Comus, 695, 696 The water of Ardenne had the opposite effect