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Mithridate

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Mithridatism

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General application ofMithridatic, q.v.

mithridatic (comparativemoremithridatic,superlativemostmithridatic)

1. (historical) Of orrelated tomithridates,universallycurative againstallpoisons.
2. Of orrelated tomithridatism, thegradualacquisition ofimmunity topoison throughrepeatedexposure.
   • 1999,Colson Whitehead,The Intuitionist,Fleet (2017), pages180-181:

     He turned the pages slowly, moving on to other metropolitan catastrophes, the nextmithridatic outrage, the pages fluttered behind the front page but the headline remained the same, in the same place hovering across from her.

• mithridatically

mithridatic (pluralmithridatics)

1. (medicine, archaic)Synonym ofantidote: atreatment whichfunctions like amithridate.

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