antidotal
Example Sentences
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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
The antidotal character of treacle comes out yet more in these lines of Lydgate: “There is no venom so parlious in sharpnes, As whan it hath of treacle a likenes”.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
The scrofula to which the Water-cress and its allied plants are antidotal, got its name from scrofa, "a burrowing pig," signifying the radical destruction of important glands in the body by this undermining constitutional disease.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Percival concludes, not unreasonably, that during its absence, it had found the antidotal herb, and eaten of it.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
The words printed in italics in the body of the letter are the antidotal abuse introduced to prevent a posthumous sale by possible executors.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 13, 1890 by Various
