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counterˈpoison, ˈcounter-ˌpoison arch.
Also 6 conter-, contre-.
[a. F. contrepoison (H. Estienne 1539); cf. It. contraveleno, med.L. contravenēnum, and see counter- 10 a, 9.]
1. A medicine that counteracts the influence of a poison; an antidote.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxxvii. 266 They mengle the floures..in conterpoysons & medicines that are made to expell poyson. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxi. (1633) 269 They..are mixed in Counter poysons as Tracle, Mythridate, and such like Compositions. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 14 A soveraigne counterpoison and remedie against all venim. 1678J. Philips Tavernier's Trav. iii. i. 100 He sent me..a Case of Medicaments and Counter-poysons.
fig.1548Veron (title), An Holsom Antidotus or counter⁓poysen agaynst the pestilent heresye and sect of Anabaptistes. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 449 Unlesse by the counterpoyson of the word of God hee vomit it out againe. 1656Cowley Pind. Odes, To Dr. Scarborough, A Med'cine and a Counter-poyson to the Age.
b. attrib.
1629J. Parkinson Parad. xxvi. 216 Aconitum salutiferum..in English..eyther wholsome Helmet flower, or counterpoison Monkes hood. 1636James Iter Lanc. 328 Y⊇ rich prizd hornes Of counter-poyson sea-fish unicornes.
2. An opposite poison.
1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (ed. 11) 473 The vulgar notion, that every poison is cured by some counter-poison, as a specific, has done much hurt. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 102 The men whose heart..revolted against intolerance..were themselves infected with the counterpoison of French philosophy. |