lubric

English[edit]

lubric (comparative more lubric, superlative most lubric)

(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.
(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?

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

Declension of lubric