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- noun Plural form of
alexipharmic .
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Examples
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I must send forth to inquire after him, since he hath stuff of the honourable household on hand — and, by our Lady, he hath stuff of mine too — certain drugs sent me from the city for composition of my alexipharmics — this gear must be looked to. —
The Abbot 2008
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Be it so -- yet if you have power to medicine to it in the way proposed, and in virtue of the diploma which you claim, you have also power in the distribution of your political alexipharmics to present the deadliest drugs to every territory that would become a
American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899
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Physicians, Bloundel was at no loss how to act, but, rubbing the part affected with a stimulating ointment, he administered at the same time doses of mithridate, Venice treacle, and other potent alexipharmics.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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