catholicon
/kəˈθɒlɪkɒn
/noun rare
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases; a panacea.Understanding there are no true catholicons in this world, I must fight to bring awareness to the public so we may one day find a cure....
- This medicine, taken 4 or 5 times a day, will fulfill every indication that the boasted panaceas and catholicons can perform.
- Death is the cure of all diseases. There is no Catholicon or universal remedy I know but this.
Origin
Late Middle English: medieval Latin, from Greek dia katholikōn 'made of general ingredients': compare with diacatholicon.
- nick-eared
- nickel
- nickel-and-dime
- nickel-antigorite
- nickel back
- nickel bag
- nickel bloom
- nickel brass
- nickel bronze
- nickel-cadmium battery
- nickel carbonyl
- nickel-chlorite
- nickel-coat
- nickel defence
- nickel defense
- nickel-dime
- nickel-face
- nickel glance
- nickel green
- nickel-gymnite
- nickel hydride
- nickelian
- nickelic
- nickelide
- nickeliferous