Meaning of mithridate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, historical, uncountable
2. Synonym of cure.
   archaic, broadly, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable
3. Ellipsis of mithridate mustard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, obsolete, rare, uncountable

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Examples

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

“After I had thus evacuated the Plethora, and diſpoſed her body for Mercurialls more operative, I gave her each morning and evening a few grains of Mercur. diaphoret. in a bolus with conſ. lujule and Mithridate [...]”

“Fools may talk of Mythridate, Cordials, Elixers...”

“What he wanted, in effect, was a universal antidote, which medical science has for years referred to as a mithridate.”

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

“That which maketh me most both to sorrow and wonder, is that musick (a methridat for melancholy) should make him mad.”

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