Smooth and glassy; slippery.
Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
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