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Mithridate   Listen
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Mithridate  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."





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"Mithridate" Quotes from Famous Books



... O me! now I remember My wife drank to me last, and changed the cup, And bade me wear this cursed suit to-day. See, if Heaven suffer murder undiscover'd! I feel me ill; give me some mithridate, Some mithridate and oil, good sister, fetch me: O, I am Sick at heart, I burn. I burn. If you will save my life, ...
— Every Man In His Humor - (The Anglicized Edition) • Ben Jonson


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