lubric
adjEtymology From Latin lūbricus.
1
Obsolete Having a smooth surface; slippery.
- No eel was ever more lubric.1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57:
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?
- 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[…].1761, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, June 6th 1678—July 30th 1712, volume II, page 147:
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- 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?1773, William Creech, editor, The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, volumes 1-2, page 141: