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Aphrodisiac   Listen
noun
Aphrodisiac  n.  That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) stimulate sexual desire.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Aphrodisiac" Quotes from Famous Books



... and exactly the love that finds its motive power in the emotions aroused by a person of the other sex. (A very intellectual woman once remarked to me that the book seemed to her "a sort of religious aphrodisiac.") If we read, for instance, Book III, Chapter V, of this work ("De Mirabili affectu Divini amoris"), we shall find in the eloquence of this solitary monk in the Low Countries neither more nor less than the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... long, which have red bellies. Here the shade is deepest, and the stems of the bamboos most thickly tattooed with the names of girls. It is believed that the flesh of the newts in the sacred pond of Yaegaki possesses aphrodisiac qualities; and the body of the creature, reduced to ashes, by burning, was formerly converted into love-powders. And there is a little Japanese song referring to ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn



Words linked to "Aphrodisiac" :   stimulant, aphrodisiacal, sexy, anaphrodisiac, excitant, stimulant drug



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