Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An electuary in the composition of which the plant scordium or water-germander formed an important element.
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- noun obsolete, pharmacology A medicine made from dried
herbs , especially Teucrium scordium.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously.
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And as he lingered for a moment while it was locked, he heard Blaize say to himself, "I must go and take three more rufuses and a large dose of diascordium."
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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In the hope that some diascordium would relieve me, the good old man runs to his room and brings it, but while he has gone for some water I hide the medicine.
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In the hope that some diascordium would relieve me, the good old man runs to his room and brings it, but while he has gone for some water I hide the medicine.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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In the hope that some diascordium would relieve me, the good old man runs to his room and brings it, but while he has gone for some water I hide the medicine.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood Giacomo Casanova 1761
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For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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'visitations' of apothecaries shops and plague that were recommended were London trea - premises from which medicines were sold exist in cle, mithridatium, galene and diascordium, a con - The College Library for the years 1724-1754.
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"In simple cases of jaundice the neutral salts have seldom produced much good effect; but I have obtained considerable success from the diascordium, in doses of half a drachm to a drachm.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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