"weapon-salve" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225",
          "text": "One of his great enthusiasms was for a \"sympathetic\" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 184",
          "text": "The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Allen G Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, page 246",
          "text": "A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.",
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        }
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        "A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon."
      ],
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          "wound",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hoplochrism"
        },
        {
          "word": "powder of sympathy"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "weapon salve"
        }
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "onguent armaire"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɛpən salv/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "weapon-salve"
}

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    {
      "form": "weapon-salves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "hoplochrism"
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      "word": "powder of sympathy"
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        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225",
          "text": "One of his great enthusiasms was for a \"sympathetic\" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 184",
          "text": "The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Allen G Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, page 246",
          "text": "A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon."
      ],
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          "ointment",
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        ],
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          "heal",
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "(now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɛpən salv/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "weapon salve"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "onguent armaire"
    }
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  "word": "weapon-salve"
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