antidotal
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
Sir Thomas Brown was not prepared to contradict it: he says, that "Lapis Lasuli hath in it a purgative faculty, we know: that Bezoar is antidotal, Lapis Judaicus diuretical, Coral antipileptical, we will not deny."
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
In this land are sorcerers and witches—although there are also good physicians, who cure diseases with medicinal herbs; especially they have a remedy for every kind of poison, for there are most wonderful antidotal herbs.
This causes imperfect bile secretion and an imperfect antidotal action to the various toxins of the body or to any alkaloidal drugs or poisons ingested.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
The likelihood is that whatever virtue the red clover can boast for counteracting a scrofulous disposition, and as antidotal to cancer, resides in its highly-elaborated lime, silica, and other earthy salts.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie