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lubric, a.|ˈl(j)uːbrɪk|
[a. F. lubrique or ad. L. lūbric-us, f. Aryan root *sleub-: see slip v.]
1. Smooth and slippery. Now rare.
1490Caxton Eneydos vii. 32 Fortune..sette..vnder the feet of the righte chaste quene, thyng slypper and lubrik, for to make hir to ouerthrowe. 1609Hume Admonit. Poems (S.T.S.) 171 Behold at how narrow a rift that awld lubrik serpent hathe slydin in. 1646Crashaw Musicks Duell 64 in Steps to Temple 105 Sobs, whose thundring volleyes float And roule themselves over her lubricke throat In panting murmurs. 1681Cotton Wond. Peak (ed. 4) 61 The Roof does sloping rise In a steep, craggy, and a lubrick Shore. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 290 The glossy sea was heaving bright..While far on her lubric bosom were seen The magic dyes of purple and green. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLVI. 84 They..turn up successively a dirty white belly or brown lubric back. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virgil's æneid 120 A lubric serpent.
†2. fig. Slippery, shifty; unsteady, unsettled; prone to danger or error. Obs.
1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xiv. §1. 230 For life it selfe, alas how uncertaine Lubrick and fraile is it. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 109 Lubrick is the estate of Favorites. 1660J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 44 These adorations of the Cross &c...were very lubrick, so that it was a difficult matter to stand upright in them, and not to fall to superstition or idolatry.
3. Lascivious; wanton.
1490Caxton Eneydos ix. 36 Ne to make foul the holy purpose of thy castymonye by thuntrue note of lubryke & slypper luxurye. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 103 This king he wox rycht vile..Lubrik and louss, with licherous appetyte. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 44 My venerious Lubric and incessing spurre of desire. a1637Dekker Witch Edmonton iii. Wks. 1873 IV. 388 If I finde Any loose lubrick scapes in him. 1686Dryden Elegy Miss A. Killigrew 63 This lubrique and adult'rate age. 1909J. Jusserand Lit. Hist. Eng. People III. 436 Here we have a Bellario, all virtue and sweetness..opposed to a series of lubric and ferocious monsters. |