alexipharmacum

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin alexipharmacum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀλεξιφάρμακον (alexiphármakon).

Noun

alexipharmacum (plural alexipharmaca)

  1. (obsolete) Something which protects against, or cures, a poison; an antidote.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames 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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