Crossword-Solution: PLACEBO 7 letters, 87 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Placebo n. The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
Placebo n. A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.

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MEDICINE given to humour rather than cure 1 answer
Part of a test, maybe 1 answer
PHARMACOLOGICALLY inactive substance administered in drug trials 1 answer
NEUTRAL substance used as control in drug testing 1 answer
Medicine-free medicine 1 answer
Medicine with no therapeutic effect 1 answer
Medicament sans medicine. 1 answer
Medically ineffectual treatment 1 answer
Medical test control substance 1 answer
Means of rigorous control 1 answer
MEDICINE, in place of 1 answer
Part of many a drug test 1 answer
MEDICATION, dummy 1 answer
It works as long as you don't know it shouldn't 1 answer
It should have no effect 1 answer
Innocuous medication 1 answer
Inert pill 1 answer
Inert medicine 1 answer
Inert medication 1 answer
Inert medicament 1 answer
Inert drug 1 answer
Ineffective substance given to humour patient 1 answer
Sugar pill 1 answer
Treatment that has no active properties 1 answer
Ineffective medicine? 1 answer
vespers of the office for the dead 1 answer
neutral substance 1 answer
inertmedicine 1 answer
Vaccine trial component 1 answer
Treatment that shouldn't have an effect 1 answer
Test control 1 answer
Sugar pill, say 1 answer
Sugar pill, e.g. 1 answer
Inactive substance used as a control in medical tests 1 answer
Spoof medicine 1 answer
Salk control factor. 1 answer
Pill with no intended effect 1 answer
Pill in experimental studies 1 answer
Pill in a clinical trial 1 answer
Pill for hypochondriacs 1 answer
Pill for a pill? 1 answer
Pill for a control group 1 answer
Phony medicine 1 answer
Part of many a test 1 answer
Control element in medical trials 1 answer
Control-group handout 1 answer
Control-group dose 1 answer
Control, maybe 1 answer
Control substance 1 answer
Control in a clinical study 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PLACEBO (5)

Beware therefore with lordes how ye play,* *use freedom Sing placebo; and I shall if I can, *But if* it be unto a poore man: *unless To a poor man men should his vices tell, But not t’ a lord, though he should go to hell.
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 2000
Placebo said; “O January, brother, Full little need have ye, my lord so dear, Counsel to ask of any that is here: But that ye be so full of sapience, That you not liketh, for your high prudence, To waive* from the word of Solomon.
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 2000
Meanwhile he applies expectant treatment as it is called in medical parlance, that is, he gives a purgative or a placebo, something or other to placate, or to make the patient and his friends believe that something is being done.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 2003
This rather meaningless placebo has a surprisingly tranquillizing effect on restless youth and nationalistic zealots.
After the Rain Sam Vaknin 2002
Oldbuck, on account of his late long absence from Knockwinnock, where his visits give so much pleasure." With this placebo she concluded her note, with which old Caxon, now refreshed in limbs and wind, set out on his return to the Antiquary's mansion.
The Antiquary, Volume 1 Sir Walter Scott 2004

Quotes with PLACEBO (3)

Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all people need to get through the day. Imagine a unit of soldiers under heavy enemy fire. They are told by their superiors to hold their position, even in the face of overwhelming fire power. The soldiers are being told that reinforcements are on the way, and that thought alone gives them …
Oliver Gaspirtz
What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.
Peter Sloterdijk You Must Change Your Life
The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.
Abhijit Naskar 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 60 times in crossword archives (1955–2023).