Antidotary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antidotary is an adjective meaning (pharmacology) Relating to or being an antidote, antidotal.
Meaning
(pharmacology) Relating to or being an antidote, antidotal.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) An antidote.
- (historical) A book of antidotes or pharmacological preparations.
Example Sentences
The practice of collecting recipes in antidotaries, probably composed in monasteries, goes back to the High Middle Ages.
In the Antidotaries of the Ancients, we find a great many Physical Compositions which seem to be wholly design’d for the Liver […]
It is a gross mistake to suppose that the apothecary’s shop contains a remedy for every disease, or that medical skill consists in prescribing an antidotary drug […]
In ancient times, in India, the kings used to decorate themselves with antidotary gems, as a safeguard against poisons. Even now the snake charmers apply a black stone on their bodies where they are wounded by the venomous reptile.
Word Forms
- antidotaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antidotal, antipharmic, antidiphtheritic, antidiphtheric, antiallodynic, antidyspeptic.
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