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Synonyms for catholicon
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh-thol-i-kuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈθɒl ɪ kən |
Top 10 synonyms for catholicon Other synonyms for the word catholicon
- counteractant
- counteragent
- elixir
- elixir vitae
- fix
- formula
- healing
- healing agent
- help
- home remedy
- magic potion
- medicament
- medicant
- medication
- medicine
- nostrum
- panacea
- patent medicine
- pharmacon
- physic
- placebo
- potion
- proprietary
- quack medicine
- quick fix
- recovery
- redress
- relief
- remedy
- reparation
- restora-tive
- therapeutic
- theriac
- treatment
- universal remedy
Définition of catholicon
- As in nostrum : noun cure-all, often ineffective
- As in panacea : noun cure-all
- As in cure-all : noun panacea
- As in medicament : noun cure
- As in medication : noun cure
- As in physic : noun cure
- As in cure : noun solution to problem, often health
- I answer it is no catholicon, no panacea; nor is any cure for all diseases to be found.
- Extract from : « Every Man his own Doctor » by R. T. Claridge
- The Catholicon is printed in a small type, not very cleanly cut.
- Extract from : « Fine Books » by Alfred W. Pollard
- We are now in a position to understand Balbi's performance in the Catholicon.
- Extract from : « The Age of Erasmus » by P. S. Allen
- Item satelles dicitur quia adheret alteri ad eius custodiam, Catholicon.
- Extract from : « Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250: Part II: Notes » by Various
- The preface contains a sarcastic harangue in orthodox charlatan style on the merits of the new Catholicon or Panacea.
- Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury
- And your petitioners are much afraid that the catholicon above mentioned is much of the same nature.
- Extract from : « Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume I (of 2) » by John Hill Burton
- I care not much if I untwist my committee-man, and so give him the receipt of this grand Catholicon.
- Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
- In 1407 there was a collection of fifty service books, and a Catholicon, the latter being perhaps the nucleus of a library.
- Extract from : « Old English Libraries » by Ernest Savage
- They are at least copious; the Catholicon is a volume of great bulk.
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 » by Henry Hallam
- From the great size of the Catholicon, its circulation must have been very limited.
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 » by Henry Hallam
Antonyms for catholicon
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