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panacea|pænəˈsiːə|
Also 6 -chæa, -chea, 7 -cæa.
[a. L. panacēa, a. Gr. πανάκεια universal remedy, f. πανακής ‘all-healing’.]
1. A remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases; a catholicon or universal remedy.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. 8 b, [That] which they call panacea, a medicine (as they affirme) effectual and of muche vertue, but knowen to no man. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 234 Physitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heauenly Panachea. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. Pref. B, This Panacæa was a certaine medicine made of saffron, quick siluer, vermilion, antimonie, and certaine sea shels made vp in fashion of triangular lozenges. 1652Evelyn St. France Misc. Writ. (1805) 89 Phlebotomie, which is their panacea for all diseases. 1759Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 243 There cannot be..an absolute panacea—a medicine that will cure every disease incident to the human body. 1867Mrs. H. Wood Orville Coll. (1876) 185 Coffee was his panacea for most ailments.
fig.1616Rich Cabinet 24 The godly Preacher..procures the generall panacea of patience, to ease all paines. 1755P. Whitehead Ep. to Dr. Thompson Poems (1790) 160 What sovereign med'cine can its course reclaim? What, but the poet's panacea—shame! 1803J. Porter Thaddeus (1826) III. vii. 151 A panacea for worse ills. 1884Sir C. S. C. Bowen in Law Rep. 26 Ch. Div. 711 There is one panacea which heals every sore in litigation, and that is costs.
†2. Applied to a reputed herb of healing virtue, vaguely and variously identified; All-heal. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 32 Whether yt divine Tobacco were, Or Panachæa, or Polygony, Shee fownd, and brought it to her patient deare. 1706Phillips, Panacea,..the Herb All-heal or Wound-wort. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Panacea,..All-heal, is also applied to several plants, by reason of the extraordinary virtues ascribed to them.
3. panacea of mercury: see quot.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 96 Add what is called, white panacea of mercury, (calomel washed in spirits of wine). |