An antidote to poison, an alexipharmic. Applied spec. to several different plants: see quot.

Old Pharmacology. A medicinal compound, originally a kind of salve, composed of many ingredients, formerly in repute as an alexipharmic against…

= theriac, n., treacle, n. 1.

An antidote to poison, esp. to the bite of a venomous serpent; = treacle, n. 1.

Any of various medicinal preparations, usually in the form of an electuary compounded of many ingredients, believed to be a universal antidote to…

A medicine given to counteract the influence of poison, or an attack of disease.

A medicine that counteracts the influence of a poison; an antidote.

The bezoar stone, or an antidote to poison prepared from it; = bezoar, n. 1 2.

An application of the nature of an antidote.

= alexipharmic, n.

= alexipharmic, n. Also figurative and in figurative context.

gen. A counter-poison or antidote. Obsolete. (In later writers taken as a figurative use of sense 2a: hence, also, bezoar-stone.)

= alexiteric, n. Now historical and rare.

Medicine and Chemistry. Something that counteracts what is harmful, or that restores (the bodily system, etc.) to a healthy state; a neutralizing…

An antidote, counterpoison.

= alexipharmic, n. rare.

A corrective: see corrective, n. 1. Obsolete.

Something that has the property of counter-acting or neutralizing what is harmful; that which restores to a healthy state. Also figurative.

A medicine or treatment believed to protect against, counteract the effects of, or expel from the body a noxious or toxic substance, esp. a poison or…

= alexipharmic, n.

A substance or drug that destroys or eliminates a disease or poison.

Something that resists (the action of a poison).

An antidote to poison.

A bezoardic drug; an antidote; a remedy.

= alexiteric, n.

= alexiteric, n.

In recent dictionaries, error for theriac, n. adj.