Crossword-Solution: CATHOLICON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catholicon | n. | A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CATHOLICON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| universal remedy | 2 answers |
| Panacea | 9 answers |
| Elixir | 32 answers |
| Remedy | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZAEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CATHOLICON (5)
There is no _catholicon_ or universal remedy I know, but this, which though nauseous to queasy stomachs, yet to prepared appetites is nectar, and a pleasant potion of immortality.
The _Catholicon_ was chained up for reference in French churches, and the practice was imitated here, possibly in nearly all the large churches.[337] The _Medulla grammatice_, left to King’s Norton Church by Sir Thomas Lyttleton, was a book of similar character, and would be deposited in church for a like purpose.
Many copies of the _Catholicon_ seem to have been made, although the transcription of so large a book was costly: even before it was printed (1460), copies for reference were sometimes chained up in English churches, and after it was printed this practice became more general, at any rate in France.
Now, this here elixir, sold for no more than sixpence a phial, contains the essence of the alkahest, the archaeus, the catholicon, the menstruum, the sun, the moon, and, to sum up all in one word, is the true, genuine, unadulterated, unchangeable, immaculate, and specific chruseon pepuromenon ek puros.” The audience were variously affected by this learned oration.
First the _Catholicon_, compiled by John Balbi, a Dominican of Genoa, and completed on 7 March 1286; a work of such importance to the age we are considering that it was printed at Mainz as early as 1460, and there were many editions later.