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noun
Any of various historical medicines, typically an electuary compounded with various poison, believed to derive from Mithridates VI and to serve as a universal antidote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
Any of various historical medicines, typically an electuary compounded with various poison, believed to derive from Mithridates VI and to serve as a universal antidote.
Synonym of cure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, broadly, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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Synonyms: cure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Ellipsis of mithridate mustard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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History
From Middle English mitridate and methridat, from Old French mithridat, from Late Latin mithridatum and mithridatium, from Latin Mithridātīus (“of or related to Mithridates”), from Mithridātēs + -ius, from Ancient Greek Μιθριδάτης (Mithridátēs), the Greek form of the name of Mithridates VI of Pontus. Doublet of mithridatium, mithridatum, and mithridaticon.
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