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mithridate


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mithridate  \Mith"ri*date\,  n.  (Med.) 
  An  antidote  against  poison,  or  a  composition  in  form  of  an 
  electuary,  supposed  to  serve  either  as  a  remedy  or  a 
  preservative  against  poison;  an  alexipharmic;  --  so  called 
  from  King  Mithridates,  its  reputed  inventor. 
 
  [Love  is]  a  drop  of  the  true  elixir;  no  mithridate  so 
  effectual  against  the  infection  of  vice.  --Southey. 




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