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
Apis is not sufficient to prevent the recurrence of such inflammatory attacks; this object has to be accomplished by means of the appropriate antidotal specific.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
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
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 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
