Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tetrapharmacon .
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- noun medicine, obsolete A combination of
wax ,resin ,lard , andpitch , composing anointment .
Etymologies
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See tetra- ("four") and Latin pharmacum ("drug").
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Examples
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_tetrapharmacum_, was so far from owing its celebrity to its royal birth, that it maintained its place on Hadrian's table to the time of his death.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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