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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Placebo  \Pla*ce"bo\,  n.  [L.,  I  shall  please,  fut.  of  placere  to 
  please.] 
  1.  (R.  C.  Ch.)  The  first  antiphon  of  the  vespers  for  the 
  dead. 
 
  2.  (Med.)  A  prescription  intended  to  humor  or  satisfy. 
 
  {To  sing  placebo},  to  agree  with  one  in  his  opinion;  to  be 
  complaisant  to  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  placebo 
  n  1:  an  innocuous  or  inert  medication;  given  as  a  pacifier  or  to 
  the  control  group  in  experiments  on  the  efficacy  of  a 
  drug 
  2:  Roman  Catholic  Church:  vespers  of  the  office  for  the  dead 




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