lubric

English

Alternative forms

• lubrical

Etymology

From Latin lubricus.

Adjective

lubric (comparative more lubric, superlative most lubric)

1. (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
   • 1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57:

     No eel was ever more lubric.

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?

   • 1761, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, June 6th 1678—July 30th 1712, volume II, page 147:

     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 […] .

   • 1773, William Creech, editor, The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, volumes 1-2, page 141:

     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?

References

• “lubric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lubrique, from Latin lubricus.

Adjective

lubric m or n (feminine singular lubrică, masculine plural lubrici, feminine and neuter plural lubrice)

1. lustful

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lubric		lubrică		lubrici	lubrice
	definite	lubricul		lubrica		lubricii	lubricele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lubric		lubrice		lubrici	lubrice
	definite	lubricului		lubricei		lubricilor	lubricelor