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panacæa

panacæa is the obsolete spelling of panacea.

Meaning of panacea

Noun

panacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)

  1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  2. A solution to all problems.
    • A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
  3. (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
    • There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    allheal, woundwort

See all 4 meanings of panacea

Forms of panacæa

pluralpanacæas

Questions about panacæa

What is panacæa the obsolete spelling of?
Panacæa is the obsolete spelling of panacea.

Words near panacæa in the dictionary

  1. panacherie
  2. panaches
  3. Panaci
  4. panacinar
  5. panackelty
  6. panacæa
  7. panacæas
  8. panada
  9. panadas
  10. panade
  11. panades

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