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Meanings of catholicon in English

Portuguese
panaceia
Catalan
panacea

Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.

        panaceia
        Usage of catholicon in English
        1
        Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill-butthe political drug-stores are full of 'em.
        The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
        2
        I soon saw the Catholicon of Spain (Spanish gold) was the chief ingredient.
        Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volum...
        3
        In this "Catholicon," which, though undated, was printed before A.D. 1500, we read
        Bacon is Shake-Speare / Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promu...
        4
        According to Way, Promptorium Parrulorum, p. 506, note, the Catholicon Anglicanum has "A turfe grafte, turbarium."
        The Earth as Modified by Human Action
        5
        I care not much if I untwist my committee-man, and so give him the receipt of this grand Catholicon.
        Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
        6
        Meanwhile permit me to recommend, As the matter admits of no delay, My wonderful Catholicon, Of very subtile and magical powers!
        The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for catholicon
        Catalan
        panacea
        Catholicon through the time