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Meaning of mandragorite | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

One who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug

archaic

Examples

“There were those who drank of it for taste or pleasure; and who were spoken of as "mandragorites," as we might speak of alcoholics or chloralists. They passed into the land of sleep and dream, and waking up in scare and alarm were the screaming mandrakes of an ancient civilization.”
“A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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