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alexipharmaca

alexipharmaca is the plural of alexipharmacum.

Meaning of alexipharmacum

Noun

alexipharmacum (plural alexipharmaca)

  1. (obsolete) Something which protects against, or cures, a poison; an antidote.
    • he calls steel the proper alexipharmacum of this malady, and much magnifies it […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Questions about alexipharmaca

What is alexipharmaca the plural of?
Alexipharmaca is the plural of alexipharmacum.

Words near alexipharmaca in the dictionary

  1. alexine
  2. alexines
  3. alexinomia
  4. alexins
  5. alexipharmac
  6. alexipharmaca
  7. alexipharmacal
  8. alexipharmacals
  9. alexipharmacon
  10. alexipharmacons
  11. alexipharmacs

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