Usage of "catholicon"

Portuguese

Catalan

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

Usage of catholicon in English

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 

I soon saw the Catholicon of Spain (Spanish gold) was the chief ingredient. 
 Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volum... 

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... 

According to Way, Promptorium Parrulorum, p. 506, note, the Catholicon Anglicanum has "A turfe grafte, turbarium." 
 The Earth as Modified by Human Action 

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 

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

have no catholicon

Translations for catholicon

Portuguese

panaceia deusa grega que personifica a cura através das ervas panacéia remédio que cura tudo

Catalan

panacea

Catholicon through the time

Interface language

Meanings of catholicon in English