antidotaladj.
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, an antidote; alexipharmic. lit. and fig.
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bezoardicala1644
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 168 None of the Ancients ascribed any medicinall or antidotall virtue unto the Unicornes horne. View more context for this quotation
1751 Johnson Rambler No. 109. ⁋2 Writings antidotal to levity and merriment.
1857 Nat. Mag. I. 285 The antidotal efficacy of a Honduras plant.
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