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
Percival concludes, not unreasonably, that during its absence, it had found the antidotal herb, and eaten of it.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
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 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
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.
