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Catholicon

noun
1.
Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.  Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea.






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"Catholicon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same century, the year 1483 saw the compilation of a similar, but quite independent work, which its author named the Catholicon Anglicum, that is, the English Catholicon or Universal treatise, after the name of the celebrated Latin dictionary of the Middle Ages, the Catholicon or Summa of Johannes de Balbis, or John of Genoa, made in 1286. The English Catholicon ...
— The evolution of English lexicography • James Augustus Henry Murray

... similar occurrences performed by the same political characters who played their part on both those great theatres of human action. A satirical royalist of those times has commemorated the motives, the incidents, and the personages in the "Satire Menippee de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne;" and this famous "Satire Menippee" is a perfect Hudibras in prose! The writer discovers all the bitter ridicule of Butler in his ludicrous and severe exhibition of the "Etats de Paris," while the artist who designed ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... existed in the body, while the head and wings contained the antidote. "A hair of the dog that bites you" is the cure for hydrophobia, the fat of the viper was the remedy for its bite, and "three scruples of the ashes of the witch, when she had been well and carefully burnt at a stake, is a sure catholicon against all the evil effects ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten



Words linked to "Catholicon" :   elixir, cure, remedy, therapeutic, curative



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