transferred. Anything to which alexipharmic or antidotal virtue is ascribed; a sovereign remedy.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > supremely effective medicine (6) treacle?1543 transferred. Anything to which alexipharmic or antidotal virtue is ascribed; a sovereign remedy. magisterium1585 Alchemy. = magistery, n. 5a 5b. Now historical. magistery1594 Alchemy. A master principle of nature, free of impurities; a potent transmuting or curative quality or agency; (concrete) a substance, such as the… mummy1605 A sovereign remedy. Also (after Paracelsus): = mummia, n. 2 (see quot. 1728). Obsolete. elixir1632 A sovereign remedy for disease. Hence adopted as a name for quack medicines, as Daffy's elixir, etc. mummia1652 Alchemy. A vital principle (after Paracelsus' use: cf. mummy, n.1 2b). Obsolete. |
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