1) French play 2) Play by Jean Racine 3) Traditional medicine
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Mithridate, also known as mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum, is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to be created by Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus in the 1st century BC. It was among one of the most complex, highly sought-after drugs during the Middle Age and Renaissance, ...
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[Racine] Mithridate is a tragedy in five acts (with respectively 5, 6, 6, 7, and 5 scenes) in Alexandrine verse by Jean Racine. ==Background and history== First performed on January 13th 1673 at the Hotel de Bourgogne, Mithridates follows Bajazet and precedes Iphigenia in Racine`s work. The subject is drawn from ancient history. Mithridates...
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antidote to poison
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• (n.) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor.
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(from the article `Racine, Jean`) In 1673 Racine presented Mithridate, which featured a return to tragedy with a Roman background. Mithradates VI, the king of Pontus, is the aging, ...
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<medicine> An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor. '[Love is] a drop of the true elixir; no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice.' (Southey) ... Source: W...
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Mith'ri·date noun (Medicine) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King
Mithridates , its reputed inventor. « [ Love is] a drop of the true elixir...
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