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 knowledg of these antidotal Herbs they have learned from the Mounggoutia a kind of Ferret.
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
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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 Fernie, William Thomas
