mithridate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various historical medicines, typically an electuary compounded with various poison, believed to derive from Mithridates VI and to serve as a universal antidote.

   “Auicen saythe; There be certeyne medicins... which wyl not suffre poyson to approche nere the harte, as triacle and Metridate.”

2. isim Synonym of cure.

   “The contemplation was a mithridate to a pestered conceipted minde.”

3. isim Ellipsis of mithridate mustard.