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   mithridate

   /ˈmɪθrɪdeɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a medicine believed to be a universal antidote to or preservative against poison and disease: historical "to procure sweat, use cardamom water with mithridate"

   Word Origin early 16th century: from medieval Latin mithridatum, alteration of late Latin mithridatium, from Mithridatius ‘relating to Mithridates’ (see mithridatize).

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