THERIACA
\θˈi͡əɹɪˈakə], \θˈiəɹɪˈakə], \θ_ˈiə_ɹ_ɪ__ˈa_k_ə]\
Definitions of THERIACA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Treacle; molasses.
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An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; - called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.
By Oddity Software
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Treacle; molasses.
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An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; - called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.
By Noah Webster.
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th[=e]-r[=i]'a-ka, n. one of the various preparations of opium: a medicine in the form of an electuary, supposed to be an antidote to snakebites, &c.--also TH[=E]'RIAC.--adjs. TH[=E]'RIAC, -AL, TH[=E]'RIAL, medicinal. [L.,--Gr. th[=e]riak[=e]--th[=e]rion, a wild beast.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Greek] An antidote against poisons, as T. Andromachi (Venice treacle), a famous prescription against poisons containing 64 ingredients. Retained in a modified form in some modern formularies.
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[Greek] Sugar-house molasses.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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