Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poison that destroys the effect of another; a poison used as an antidote to another; anything administered to counteract a poison; an antidote.
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Examples
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Badawin eat for counter-poison three heads of garlic in clarified butter for forty days.
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Tariyak (Theriack) of Al-Irak — the great counter-poison, internal as well as external, of the East.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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At last, by the advice of a Baden enchanter, at the time of the paroxysm he used to flay a fox by way of antidote and counter-poison.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At last, by the advice of a Baden enchanter, at the time of the paroxysm he used to flay a fox by way of antidote and counter-poison.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Just at this time the Spanish Ambassador at Piedmont sent her a counter-poison which had a happy effect: she recovered, but never would mention whom she suspected.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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She sent to her brothers for a counter-poison, so that my son should not take her off by those means; and thus she reconciled Maintenon, who was at enmity with her.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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The old woman has even done more she has hinted to the Duchess that she is not secure in her husband's house, and that she should ask her brother for a counter-poison, as she herself was obliged to do during the latter days of the King's life.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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Spanish Ambassador at Piedmont sent her a counter-poison which had a happy effect: she recovered, but never would mention whom she suspected.
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Duchess that she is not secure in her husband's house, and that she should ask her brother for a counter-poison, as she herself was obliged to do during the latter days of the King's life.
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She sent to her brothers for a counter-poison, so that my son should not take her off by those means; and thus she reconciled
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