单词 | panacean |
释义 | panaceanadj. Of the nature of a panacea; that cures all diseases; (also figurative) that solves all difficulties. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] > universally panaceana1657 pancrastical1698 panto-iatrical1716 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > universal catholic1617 catholicala1640 panaceana1657 panpharmacal1657 pancrastical1698 a1657 G. Daniel Eclog. in Poems (1878) II. 196 Panacean Asphodil And fresh Nepenthe. 1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 64 This panacean fount surpases The brook of Siloa, or Parnassus. 1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Poems 187 Still does reluctant Peace refuse..To shed her Panacean dews. 1880 Med. Temp. Jrnl. July 145 Our slowness to believe the panacean qualities of alcohol. 1919 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 16 253 We believed..in the panacean powers of science. 1976 A. J. Russell Pour Hemlock ix. 89 The bones—tortoise shells..remains of deer, oxen and other animals—were ground into powder and sold as a panacean remedy. 1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 206 There was promise of a panacean new deal in which this heaviest of all elements found in nature would cheaply heat homes and light cities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1657 |
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