catholicon

[ kuh-thol-i-kuhn ]

noun

1. a universal remedy; panacea.

catholicon

/ kəˈθɒlɪkən /

noun

1. a remedy for all ills; panacea

Word History and Origins

Origin of catholicon¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin < Greek katholikón neuter of katholikós catholic

Word History and Origins

Origin of catholicon¹

C15: from Medieval Latin; see catholic

Example Sentences

The Professor then entreated M. T. Pate to imbibe from the bottle containing his catholicon.

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Indeed I doubt whether I have ever felt the catholicon—the pervading virtue of his book—quite so strongly as I have in the days preceding that on which I write these words.

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Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill—but the political drug-stores are full of 'em.

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In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.

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