Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A universal medicine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A medicine for all diseases; a panacea.
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- noun dated A
medicine for alldiseases ; apanacea .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute panpharmacon, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute _panpharmacon_, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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Christ set up for the cure of, but he healed those that were sick of divers diseases, for his word was a panpharmacon -- a salve for every sore.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Christ, coming into the world to be its physician, sent his gospel as the great medicine, the panpharmacon; there is in it a remedy for every malady.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
whichbe commented on the word panpharmacon
Universal remedy. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008