"theriac" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "ref": "1558, William Bullein, The Government of Health, fol. 120",
          "text": "This excellent triacle Methridatum is nexte in qualitye and virtue to Theriaca... but onely Theriaca is a little hotter and stronger againste venyme of Snakes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1811, John Quincy et al., Quincy's Lexicon-Medicum..., s.v",
          "roman": "Theriaca Londinensis, a cataplasm of cummin seed, bay-berries, germander, snake-root, cloves and honey.",
          "text": "Theriaca Andromachi, the Venice or Mithridate treacle...\nTheriaca communis, common treacle, or molasses...",
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        },
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          "ref": "1975, Guido Majno, The Healing Hand, Harvard University Press, page 415",
          "text": "From then on galene became the theriac par excellence, known simply as theriac, and there never was a more successful drug[…] Those who could afford it gulped down a bean-sized lump of theriac for practically everything from the Black Death to nothing at all, as a preventive.",
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          "text": "Theriac was essentially homeopathic in its supposed function, being an improvement on mithridate by virtue of containing more poisons.",
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          "sense": "a supposed universal antidote, distinguished from mithridate",
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        "hyponym of panacea."
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        "(figurative) hyponym of panacea."
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          "ref": "1568, Gilbert Skeyne, Ane Breue Descriptioun of the Pest, Ch. 7",
          "text": "...ane half vnce of guid auld theriac..."
        },
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          "ref": "1666, Philosophical Transactions, volume I, page 160",
          "text": "...the great number of Vipers, brought to the Grand Duke of Toscany for the composing of Theriac or Treacle...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Alisha Rankin, The Poison Trials, page 179",
          "text": "...in the herbal (Kra:uterbuch) of German physician Adam Lonicer... In his final edition, published in 1587 (the year after his death), Lonicer added an entry on bezoar, \"a stone against all poison,\" which he highlighted as \"more powerful than any other poison antidote or theriac.\"",
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        "Synonym of antidote, particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite."
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        "(medicine, archaic) Synonym of antidote, particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite."
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        "Synonym of molasses."
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        "(obsolete) Synonym of molasses."
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      "ipa": "/ˈθɪəriˌæk/",
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