catholicon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of catholicon
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin < Greek katholikón neuter of katholikós catholic
Example Sentences
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The Professor then entreated M. T. Pate to imbibe from the bottle containing his catholicon.
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Indeed I doubt whether I have ever felt the catholicon—the pervading virtue of his book—quite so strongly as I have in the days preceding that on which I write these words.
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Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill—but the political drug-stores are full of 'em.
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In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.
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