† alexiteriann.adj.
Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
A. n.
= alexiteric n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun]
atterlothec1000
treacle1340
theriaclec1400
theriacc1440
mithridate1528
antidote1543
counter-poison1548
pazar1563
antidotary1583
alexipharmac1585
alexipharmacum1590
bezoar1597
alexitery1604
corrector1605
counterbane1605
alexipharmacal1608
correctory1608
corrective1612
alexipharmic1628
alexiteric1655
deletery1657
obsistent1657
vincetoxic1658
bezoardic1671
alexiterial1673
alexiterian1681
therial1912
1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. ii. xiii. 130 As to Poyson-resisting Medicines, or Alexiterians [L. Pharmaca alexiteria], which are said to resist the Poyson of this Disease [sc. plague], without any sensible evacuation, they are (for the most part) such, whose particles are not very much kin to Nature.
B. adj.
= alexiteric adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [adjective]
repugnant?a1425
theriacc1440
corrective1541
antidotary1599
theriacal1603
alexitery1604
alexipharmacal1608
alexipharmatical1608
alexipharmical1608
alexiterial1608
antidotical1608
bezoardicala1644
antidotal1646
alexipharmic1659
alexipharmac1661
alexiterical1665
bezoardic1671
alexiteric1696
alexiterian1775
1775 T. Hutchinson Diary 1 Nov. in Diary & Lett. (1884) 552 By his prescription, she..took a mixture of oyl of almonds, syrup of balsam, alexiterian simple, water, and sal. volat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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