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Placebo

noun

(pl. placebos)

An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug.

(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead.

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... word of the first chant in the service for the dead. Skelton has here made it into three words. The chant is called the Placebo from the first word. . . . . I wept and I wailed, The tears down hailed, But nothing it availed To call Philip again, That Gib our cat hath slain. Gib, I say, our cat Worried her on that Which I loved best. It cannot ...

— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

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