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Definition of mithridate in English: mithridatenoun ˈmɪθrɪdeɪt historical A medicine believed to be a universal antidote to or preservative against poison and disease. to procure sweat, use cardamom water with mithridate Example sentencesExamples - He began to practise physic four years after coming from Canterbury to London, out of necessity, especially by making pills and electuaries, particularly mithridate and London treacle.
- The horn was mixed with expensive mithridate, a compound used as an antidote to poison.
- Then boil them a little and put thereto half an ounce of andromachus-treakle, and three drams of mithridate, and a quarter of a pint of the best angelica water.
- Let the best of our rational physicians give a sufficient reason for those intricate mixtures, why just so many simples in mithridate or treacle; may they not be reduced to half or a quarter?
- Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of Mithridate or Benice treacle, frees the heart from any infection of pestilence.
Origin Early 16th century: from medieval Latin mithridatum, alteration of late Latin mithridatium, from Mithridatius 'relating to Mithridates' (see mithridatize). |