antidotal

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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 Wolf, C. W.

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

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 Palmer, Abram Smythe

Its discontinuance was rendered rather necessary by my enthusiasm that led too far in a few cases, but the antidotal effects of certain remedies amply compensated me for my financial and reputational loss.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock