alexipharmacum

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin alexipharmacum, from Ancient Greek ἀλεξιφάρμακον (alexiphármakon).

Noun[edit]

alexipharmacum (plural alexipharmaca)

  1. (obsolete) Something which protects against, or cures, a poison; an antidote.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:
      he calls steel the proper alexipharmacum of this malady, and much magnifies it […].

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